molehill
noun
1 molehill
A mound of earth made by moles while burrowing.
Roget 193:
littleness
etc.
adj.;
smallness
etc.
(of quantity)
32;
exiguity,
inextension†;
parvitude†,
parvity†;
duodecimo†;
Elzevir edition,
epitome,
microcosm;
rudiment;
vanishing point;
thinness
etc.
203.
dwarf,
pygmy,
pigmy†,
Liliputian,
chit,
pigwidgeon†,
urchin,
elf;
atomy†,
dandiprat†;
doll,
puppet;
Tom Thumb,
Hop-o'-my-thumb†;
manikin,
mannikin;
homunculus,
dapperling†,
cock-sparrow.
animalcule,
monad,
mite,
insect,
emmet†,
fly,
midge,
gnat,
shrimp,
minnow,
worm,
maggot,
entozoon†;
bacteria;
infusoria†;
microzoa [Micro.];
phytozoaria†;
microbe;
grub;
tit,
tomtit,
runt,
mouse,
small fry;
millet seed,
mustard seed;
barleycorn;
pebble,
grain of sand;
molehill,
button,
bubble.
point;
atom
etc.
(small quantity)
32;
fragment
etc.
(small part)
51;
powder
etc.
330;
point of a pin,
mathematical point;
minutiae
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
micrometer;
vernier;
scale.
microphotography,
photomicrography,
micrography†;
photomicrograph,
microphotograph;
microscopy;
microscope
(optical instruments)
445.
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Roget 207:
lowness
etc.
adj.;
debasement,
depression,
prostration
etc.
(horizontal)
213;
depression
etc.
(concave)
252.
molehill;
lowlands;
basement floor,
ground floor;
rez de chaussee [Fr.];
cellar;
hold,
bilge;
feet,
heels.
low water;
low tide,
ebb tide,
neap tide,
spring tide.
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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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Dutch: molshoop
Polish: kretowisko, kretowina
Moby thesaurus: a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, anthill, bagatelle, bank, barrow, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brae, brass farthing, butte, button, cent, cock, curio, down, drift, drumlin, dune, embankment, farce, farthing, feather, fell, fig, fleabite, folderol, foothills, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, hill, hill of beans, hillock, hummock, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knob, knoll, minikin, mockery, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mow, peppercorn, picayune, pile, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pyramid, rap, red cent, rick, row of pins, rush, sand dune, shit, snap, sneeshing, snowdrift, sou, stack, straw, swell, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham ... show more.
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