trifle

[Tri·fle]

A trifle is something that's totally unimportant. If your friend is freaking out over which shoes to buy and you call her dilemma a trifle, you're saying she shouldn't get so worked up over nothing.

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A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

Noun
something of small importance

Noun
a detail that is considered insignificant

Noun
jam-spread sponge cake soaked in wine served with custard sauce

Verb
consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

Verb
act frivolously

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Verb
waste time; spend one''s time idly or inefficiently

n.
A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

n.
A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

n.
To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

v. t.
To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

v. t.
To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.

Trifle

Tri"fle , n. [OE. trifle, trufle, OF. trufle mockery, raillery, trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being applied to any small or worthless object. See Truffle.] 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

With such poor trifles playing.

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ.

Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life.

2. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

Trifle

Tri"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trifled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling .] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.] To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.

To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.

Trifle

Tri"fle, v. t. 1. To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. "We trifle time." Shak.

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

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Usage Examples

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

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Other Usage Examples

One must not trifle with love.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.