• adj.
    ⦿(informal) small and of little importance
    lexical concept
  • a dispute over niggling details
  • a fiddling sum of money
  • a footling gesture
  • a little (or small) matter
  • giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  • limited to petty enterprises
  • our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  • piffling efforts

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:little
  2. enl:petty
  3. enl:picayune
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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • fiddlingfootlinglilliputiannigglingpicayunepiddlingpifflingtrivial
  • fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpettypicayunepiddlingpifflingtrivial