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trivial

• (s) (informal) small and of little importance
  • a fiddling sum of money
  • a footling gesture
  • our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  • a little (or small) matter
  • a dispute over niggling details
  • limited to petty enterprises
  • piffling efforts
  • giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, petty, lilliputian, little,
• (s) of little substance or significance
  • a few superficial editorial changes
  • only trivial objections
  superficial,
• (s) concerned with trivialities
  • a trivial young woman
  • a trivial mind

Synonyms

fiddling footling niggling picayune piddling piffling petty lilliputian little superficial

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