Usually means: Of little value, importance, substance.
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  1. trifling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trifling: Merriam-Webster
  3. trifling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trifling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trifling: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Trifling, trifling: Wordnik
  8. trifling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trifling: Wiktionary
  10. trifling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trifling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trifling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trifling: Dictionary.com
  14. trifling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Trifling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. Trifling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. trifling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. trifling: FreeDictionary.org
  19. trifling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. trifling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. trifling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  22. trifling: Rhymezone

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trifling)

▸ adjective:  Trivial, or of little importance.
▸ adjective:  Idle or frivolous.
▸ adjective:  (African-American Vernacular) Action seen as nasty and/or dirty.
▸ adjective:  2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World:
▸ noun:  The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

Similar:
paltry, dalliance, dawdling, negligible, worthless, wasting time, slight, nugacious, venial, lilliputian, more...

Opposite:
significant, substantial, important, meaningful, weighty

Phrases:
trifling away, most trifling, trifling flurry, trifling amount, trifling criticisms that are picked, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, solemn, elegant, childish, few, arrant, laborious, idle, egregious, literary

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Similar:
paltry, dalliance, dawdling, negligible, worthless, wasting time, slight, nugacious, venial, lilliputian, more...

Opposite:
significant, substantial, important, meaningful, weighty

Phrases:
trifling away, most trifling, trifling flurry, trifling amount, trifling criticisms that are picked, trifling thing, trifling talk, opposite of trifling, trifling gripes, trifling matter, trifling offence, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, solemn, elegant, childish, few, arrant, laborious, idle, egregious, literary

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive,     mustard, more...



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