Something of little value or significance.
synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity.
Roget 882:
ostentation,
display,
show,
flourish,
parade,
etalage [Fr.],
pomp,
array,
state,
solemnity;
dash,
splash,
splurge,
glitter,
strut,
pomposity;
pretense,
pretensions;
showing off;
fuss.
magnificence,
splendor;
coup d'oeil [Fr.];
grand doings.
coup de theatre;
stage effect,
stage trick;
claptrap;
mise en scene [Fr.];
tour de force;
chic.
demonstration,
flying colors;
tomfoolery;
flourish of trumpets
etc.
(celebration)
883;
pageant,
pageantry;
spectacle,
exhibition,
exposition,
procession;
turn out,
set out;
grand function;
f=ete,
gala,
field day,
review,
march past,
promenade,
insubstantial pageant.
dress;
court dress,
full dress,
evening dress,
ball dress,
fancy dress;
tailoring,
millinery,
man millinery,
frippery,
foppery,
equipage.
ceremony,
ceremonial;
ritual;
form,
formality;
etiquette;
puncto [Lat.],
punctilio,
punctiliousness;
starched stateliness,
stateliness.
mummery,
solemn mockery,
mouth honor.
attitudinarian†;
fop
etc.
854.
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Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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Roget 847:
ornament,
ornamentation,
ornamental art;
ornature†,
ornateness;
adornment,
decoration,
embellishment;
architecture;
jewelry
etc.
847.1.
[surface coatings for wood: list]
garnish,
polish,
varnish,
French polish,
veneer,
japanning,
lacquer.
[surface coatings for metal]
gilding,
plating,
ormolu,
enamel,
cloisonn_e.
[surface coatings for human skin]
cosmetics
(in general),
makeup;
[Makeup list],
eye shadow,
rouge,
face powder,
lipstick,
blush.
[ornamental surface pattern: list]
pattern,
diaper,
powdering,
paneling,
graining,
pargeting†;
detail;
repousse
(convexity)
250;
texture
etc.
329;
richness;
tracery,
molding,
fillet,
listel†,
strapwork†,
coquillage [Fr.],
flourish,
fleur-de-lis [Fr.],
arabesque,
fret,
anthemion†;
egg and tongue,
egg and dart;
astragal†,
zigzag,
acanthus,
cartouche;
pilaster
etc.
(projection)
250;
bead,
beading;
champleve ware [Fr.],
cloisonne ware;
frost work,
Moresque [Lat.],
Morisco,
tooling.
[ornamental cloth]
embroidery;
brocade,
brocatelle†,
galloon,
lace,
fringe,
trapping,
border,
edging,
trimming;
hanging,
tapestry,
arras;
millinery,
ermine;
drap d'or [Fr.].
wreath,
festoon,
garland,
chaplet,
flower,
nosegay,
bouquet,
posy,
daisies pied and violets blue,"
tassel,
[Love's Labor's Lost],
knot;
shoulder knot,
apaulette†,
epaulet,
aigulet†,
frog;
star,
rosette,
bow;
feather,
plume,
pompom†,
panache,
aigrette.
finery,
frippery,
gewgaw,
gimcrack,
tinsel,
spangle,
clinquant†,
pinchbeck,
paste;
excess of ornament
etc.
(vulgarity)
851;
gaud,
pride.
[ornamentation of text]
illustration,
illumination,
vignette.
fleuron†;
head piece [Fr.],
tail piece [Fr.];
cul-de-lampe [Fr.];
flowers of rhetoric
etc.
577;
work of art.
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Roget 851:
vulgarity,
vulgarism;
barbarism,
Vandalism,
Gothicism†;
mauvis gout [Fr.],
bad taste;
gaucherie,
awkwardness,
want of tact;
ill-breeding
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
courseness
etc.
adj.†;
indecorum,
misbehavior.
lowness,
homeliness;
low life,
mauvais ton [Fr.],
rusticity;
boorishness
etc.
adj.;
brutality;
rowdyism,
blackguardism†;
ribaldry;
slang
etc.
(neology)
563.
bad joke,
mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament]
gaudiness,
tawdriness;
false ornament;
finery,
frippery,
trickery,
tinsel,
gewgaw,
clinquant†;
baroque,
rococo.
rough diamond,
tomboy,
hoyden,
cub,
unlicked cub†;
clown
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
Goth,
Vandal,
Boeotian;
snob,
cad,
gent;
parvenu
etc.
876;
frump,
dowdy;
slattern
etc.
653.
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Roget 853:
ridiculousness
etc.
adj.;
comicality,
oddity
etc.
adj.;
extravagance,
drollery.
farce,
comedy;
burlesque
etc.
(ridicule)
856;
buffoonery
etc.
(fun)
840;
frippery;
doggerel verses;
absurdity
etc.
497;
bombast
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
anticlimax,
bathos;
eccentricity,
monstrosity
etc.
(unconformity)
83;
laughingstock
etc.
857.
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