vverb.communicationspeak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantlySynset:blab blabber chatter clack gabble gibber maunder palaver piffle prate prattle tattle tittle-tattle twaddle
Derivationally Related Form:prattletwaddleblabberpalaverpraterchatterprategabbletittle-tattlepiffleprattlertwaddlerchatterer
Hypernyms:mouth speak talk utter verbalise verbalize
Inherited Hypernyms:chattertalkcommunicateinteractact
Direct Hyponyms:babbleblatherbletherblithersmatter
Full Troponyms:babble
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Sam and Sue --- (apply to: chatter, prate, tittle-tattle)
vverb.bodyact in a trivial or ineffective wayDerivationally Related Form:piffle
Hypernyms:act behave do
Inherited Hypernyms:piffleact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
adj satadj.all(informal) small and of little importanceDomain Usage:colloquialism
Synset:fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling petty picayune piddling trivial
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:important
Derivationally Related Form:triviapettinesstrivializelittlenesstriviality
Inherited Hypernyms:fiddling
Similar to:unimportant