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.

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

adjective 2. petty, minor, trifling, insignificant, unimportant, fussy, quibbling, picky (informal) piddling (informal) nit-picking (informal) finicky, pettifogging

Translations

niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ] adj [detail] (= trifling); nimio, insignificante (= annoying); molesto; [doubt, pain] → constante

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niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ] adj → tatillon(ne); [detail] → insignifiant(e); [doubt, pain] → persistant(e)

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niggling [ˈnɪglɪŋ] niggle adj → quälend;

(pain, ache) → bohrend

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