footling

foo·tling  (ftlng)

adj. Informal

1. Lacking importance or significance; trifling: a footling gesture.

2. Stupid; inept.

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[Present participle of footle.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

footling - (informal) small and of little importance; "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" fiddling, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, petty, lilliputian, little colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech unimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"