| ADJECTIVE | all | picayune, fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial | (informal) small and of little importance |
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| Sounds | pih.kiyyuw'n | |
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| Rhymes | afternoon ... Witherspoon: 64 rhymes with uwn... | |
| Meaning | (informal) small and of little importance. | |
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| Example | "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" | |
| Synonyms | fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial | |
| Broader | unimportant | not important |
| Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| Spanish | baladí, fútil, insignificante, insustancial, intrascendente, nimio, pequeño, trivial | |
| Catalan | fútil, inconsiderable, insignificant, insubstancial, intrascendent, negligible, nimi, petit, trivial | |
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