niggling

nig·gling  (nglng)

adj.

1. Petty, especially in a nagging or annoying way; trifling: a pointless dispute over niggling details.

2. Overly concerned with details; exacting and fussy.

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niggling n.

niggling·ly adv.

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niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ]

adj

1. petty

2. fussy

3. irritating

4. requiring painstaking work

n

an act or instance of niggling

nigglingly  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

niggling - (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, footling, 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"

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niggling

adjective

1. irritating, troubling, persistent, bothersome Both players have been suffering from niggling injuries.

2. petty, minor, trifling, insignificant, unimportant, fussy, quibbling, picky (informal), piddling (informal), nit-picking (informal), finicky, pettifogging They started having tiffs about the most niggling little things.

Translations

niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ]

A. ADJ [detail] → engorroso; [doubt, suspicion] → persistente, constante; [injury] → molesto, molestoso(LAm); [person] → quisquilloso

B. N (= complaints) → quejas fpl

niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ] adj

[doubt, worry] → persistant(e)

[pain, injury] → qui se réveille régulièrement

[detail] → insignifiant(e)

niggling

adj person → kritt(e)lig (inf), → überkritisch; question, doubt, pain → bohrend, quälend; injury → lästig; detail → pingelig (inf); feeling → ungut

n → Kritteln nt, → Meckern nt (inf)

niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ] adj (detail) → insignificante; (doubt, pain) → persistente; (person) → pignolo/a