Trifling Synonyms and Antonyms

trīflĭng
To make amorous advances without serious intentions
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. toying
  2. flirting
  3. dallying
  4. coquetting
The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dawdling
  2. idling
  3. dalliance
  4. loitering
Consider not very seriously
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. playing
  2. flirting
  3. toying
  4. coquetting
  5. dallying
Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. puttering
  2. touching
  3. toying
  4. doodling
  5. playing
  6. jesting
  7. piddling
  8. twiddling
  9. wasting
  10. tricking
  11. tracing
  12. tinkering
  13. lounging
  14. dallying
  15. pinching
  16. fidgeting
  17. paltering
  18. jotting
  19. loitering
  20. hinting
  21. flirting
  22. fiddling
  23. dawdling
  24. monkeying
  25. dropping
  26. mocking
  27. fooling
  28. deceiving
  29. dashing
  30. dabbling
  31. bitting
To treat flippantly or without seriousness; play or toy:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. flirting
Of little worth or importance.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. trivial

Words Related to Trifling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Trifling Sentence Examples

  • Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

  • But these figures are trifling compared with those at the end of the middle ages.

  • Although iron, copper, coal and lignite are worked, the mineral wealth is trifling.

  • Under his hand the most trifling subjects gained a new importance; yet he treated the gravest with a touch so light that he seemed to have invented the sciences rather than learnt them, for he was always a creator, always original, and himself was imitable of none."

  • Moissan, contains only a trifling amount of morphia, and the effect produced by it is apparently due, not to that alkaloid, but to such decomposition products as pyrrol, acetone and pyridine and hydropyridine bases.

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