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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trifling \Tri"fling\, adjective Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- {Tri"fling*ly}, adverb -- {Tri"fling*ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trifle \Tri"fle\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Trifled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trifling}.] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See {Trifle}, noun] 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. --Hooker.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trifling
adjective: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" [syn: {negligible}, {paltry}]
noun: the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn: {dalliance}, {dawdling}, {wasting time}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "trifling": Mickey Mouse, airy, asinine, banal, bickering, brimful, brimming, captious, catchpenny, caviling, chic, chipper, chitchat, chitter-chatter, choplogic, classy, commonplace, coquetry, crammed, crowded, cursory, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dashing, dawdling, depthless, dillydallying, dolce far niente, empty, equivocatory, evasive, fashionable, fatuous, few, fiddling, flimsy, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, foolish, footling, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, hollow, idle, idling, inane, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, insipid, jammed, jejune, jerking off, kidding around, lazing, light, lingering, little, loaded, loafing, logic-chopping, loitering, lolling, lounging, low, meager, measly, messing around, miniature, minor, modish, monkeying, monkeying around, mopery, neat, negligible, niggling, nit-picking, no great shakes, nugacious, nugatory, orderly, otiose, packed, paltering, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puny, pussyfooting, puttering, quibbling, shallow, sharp, shipshape, short, shuffling, silly, skin-deep, slender, slight, small, smart, smattering, snappy, snug, spick-and-span, superficial, swank, tarrying, tidy, tinkering, tiny, toying, trichoschistic, trig, trim, trite, trivial, uncluttered, unimportant, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, well-groomed, windy, worthless
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