informal Small and of little importance.

synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling.

Roget 136: frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming^†, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated etc. 104; customary etc. 613 (habit) 613; regular (normal) 80; according to rule etc. (conformable) 82.    common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.    old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.    ... show more

Roget 193: little; small etc. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable etc. (unimportant) 643; exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin^†, miniature, pygmy, pigmy^†, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative^†, portable; duodecimo^†; dumpy, squat; short etc. 201.    impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial; infinitesimal, homoeopathic^†; atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial.    weazen^†, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin etc. (narrow) 203; granular etc. (powdery) 330; shrunk etc. 195; brevipennate^†.    ... show more

Roget 490: knowing etc. v.; cognitive; acroamatic^†.    aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au fait with, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived.    proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with.    erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned; accomplished etc. (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught.    known etc. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.    cognoscible^†, cognizable.    ... show more

Roget 517: unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense etc. 516.    inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant etc. 516; insignificant.    trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.    unmeant, not expressed; tacit etc. (latent) 526.    inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.    ... show more

Roget 643: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.    subordinate etc. (inferior) 34; mediocre etc. (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary etc. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.    trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile etc. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak etc. 160; powerless etc. 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble^†, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin^†; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle^†, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.    poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible etc. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel^†, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid^†, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.].    not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw etc. n.; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina [It]; vain etc. (useless) 645.    ... show more

Polish: bagatelny

Of little substance or significance:
— Only trivial objections.

synonym: superficial.

Concerned with trivialities.