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Piffling

To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.

📖 Definitions of "Piffling"

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10 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
trivialnoun	Ignorable; of little significance or value.
pettynoun	(often derogatory) Having little or no importance.
picayunenoun	Of little consequence; small and of little importance; petty, trivial.
littlenoun	Small in size.
piddling	Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
nigglingnoun	Irritating.
fiddlingnoun	The playing of music on a fiddle.
unimportant	petty; not important or noteworthy
footlingnoun	trivial, silly and irritating.
lilliputiannoun	Very small, diminutive

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
piddling	Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
trivialnoun	Ignorable; of little significance or value.
pettynoun	(often derogatory) Having little or no importance.
unimportant	petty; not important or noteworthy
footlingnoun	trivial, silly and irritating.
nigglingnoun	Irritating.
fiddlingnoun	The playing of music on a fiddle.
littlenoun	Small in size.
lilliputiannoun	Very small, diminutive
picayunenoun	Of little consequence; small and of little importance; petty, trivial.
piffly	(informal) Synonym of piffling (“petty; unimportant”).
quibbly	Fussy; quibbling.
trifling	Trivial, or of little importance.
pissantnoun	(slang, derogatory) An insignificant person.
petitenoun	(genetics) A mutant first discovered in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, forming small colonies when grown in the presence of fermentable carbon sources such as glucose.
pusilnoun	A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines.
slight	Minor; small in amount
semantic	Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.
fribblish	frivolous; trifling
frivolent	(nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly