piffling

pif·fle  (pfl)

intr.v. pif·fled, pif·fling, pif·fles

To talk or act feebly or futilely.

n.

Foolish or futile talk or ideas; nonsense.

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piffling

Adjective

Informal worthless; trivial

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

piffling - (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, niggling, picayune, piddling, 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"

Translations

piffling [ˈpɪflɪŋ] adj → insignifiant(e)

piffling [ˈpɪflɪŋ] (inf) adj → lächerlich

piffling [ˈpɪflɪŋ] adj → insignificante