Piddling

/ˈpɪdəlɪŋ/

Synonyms for "piddling" (107 found)

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Closest matches (22)

Adjective(7 words)

petty trivial dawdle fiddling footlingfritter awayidle away

cheeseparing chinchy chintzy coquetry cramped dalliance dallying dinky exiguous flirtation fooling frugalhalf pinthalf-pint inconsequential

Strong matches (32)

infrequent insignificant jerkwaterknee highknee-high limited little loitering meager meagre measlymickey mouseminute miserly moderate monkeying niggardly nigglingone horseone-horse

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paltry pathetic

Adjective(1 words)

insignificant

Adjective(9 words)

insubstantial lilliputian little meager minor negligible niggling paltrier paltry

Related words (53)

peanut peddling petite pettifogging petty picayune picayunish piffling pimping pindlingpint sizedpint-sized playing poky poor punk puny puttering rare scant

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scanty scarce scattered scrimping scrimpyseldom met withseldom seenshort skimping skimpy slight slim smallsmall timesmall-beer small-time smallish smattering sparse spotty sprinkled stingy thin tight tinhorn tinkering two-bittwo-by-four

Adjective(5 words)

pettiest picayune piffling triflingwaste time

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

5 entries

effort magnitude qualityspend timeworth

More specific

9 entries

dawdlefritter awayidle awaynegligible amountpaltry sumpiddling effortpiddling excusepiddling performancetrifling amount

Collocations

9 entries

piddling amountpiddling aroundpiddling awaypiddling detailpiddling differencepiddling excusepiddling littlepiddling sumpiddling tasks

Inflections

4 entries

more piddlingmost piddlingpiddled piddles

Derivations

3 entries

piddler piddlingly piddlingness

similar

1 entries

unimportant

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?

Source: tatoeba (246313)

After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.

Source: wiktionary

the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes

Source: wiktionary

Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.

Source: wiktionary

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