Words popularity by usage frequency ranking Important, significant, serious, of import Significant, important, serious, of import Niggling, picayune, piffling, footling, superficial, petty, fiddling, lilliputian, little, piddling "a few superficial editorial changes" "only trivial objections" Of import, serious, important, significant Subaltern, junior-grade, piddling, superficial, picayune, diminutive, tiny, footling, petite, lowly, petty(a), lilliputian, slight, bantam, lower-ranking, small-minded, fiddling, petty, minuscule, short, midget, little(a), flyspeck, secondary, small, little, piffling, niggling
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"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" (informal) small and of little importance Princeton's WordNet (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate these synonyms:įiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial adjective Compare VACANT OSTENTATION PRIDE.Ībortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, unavailing, unimportant, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthlessĪdequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy That which is useless lacks actual fitness for a purpose that which is vain lacks imaginable fitness.
Fruitless is more final than ineffectual, as applying to the sum or harvest of endeavor. Useless, in the widest sense, signifies not of use for any valuable purpose, and is thus closely similar to valueless and worthless. That which is useless, futile, or vain is inherently incapable of accomplishing a specified result. That which is bootless, fruitless, or profitless fails to accomplish any valuable result that which is abortive, ineffectual, or unavailing fails to accomplish a result that it was, or was supposed to be, adapted to accomplish.
Vain (Latin vanus, empty) keeps the etymological idea through all changes of meaning a vain endeavor is empty of result, or of adequate power to produce a result, a vain pretension is empty or destitute of support, a vain person has a conceit that is empty or destitute of adequate cause or reason.
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