English adjective: piddling | |||
1. | piddling (informal) small and of little importance | ||
Samples | A fiddling sum of money. A footling gesture. Our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war. A little (or small) matter. A dispute over niggling details. Limited to petty enterprises. Piffling efforts. Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction. | ||
Synonyms | fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial | ||
Similar | unimportant | ||
Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
Antonyms | important, of import | ||