piddling English

Meaning piddling meaning

What does piddling mean?

piddling

— adjective (= fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piffling, petty, picayune) (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

Synonyms piddling synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as piddling?

piddling English » English

trivial

petty

little

paltry

niggling

insignificant

trifling

piffling

picayune

fiddling

worthless

unimportant

trashy

slight

potty

nickel-and-dime

minor

measly

lilliputian

footling

uninfluential

unimpressive

unimposing

unessential

two-penny

subfusc

small-time

small

slender

shrimpy

short

scummy

scrimp

scamp

purportless

puny

picayunish

petit

peanut

null

nugatory

nonessential

no-count

no-account

negligible

miserable

marginal

lowercase

limited

invalid

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Grammar Very Degree

To a small degree

• What words indicate a small degree?
  deficient inappreciably inconsequentially insignificantly lacking lightly limited little low merely moderately negligibly piddling possible puny reasonably relatively slightly somewhat sparingly temperately trivial trivially