petty

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Having little or no importance.
2. Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
3. (informal) Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
4. Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
5. Little or small in size.
6. Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.

Noun

1. (informal) An outbuilding used as a lavatory; an outhouse, a privy.
2. A class or school for young schoolboys.
3. (obsolete) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.

Sinónimos

trifling

trivial

insignificant

small

paltry

minor

little

slight

small-minded

mean

stingy

niggling

narrow-minded

unimportant

piddling

negligible

tiny

fiddling

footling

lowly

niggle

petty larceny

picayune

piffling

puny

petit larceny

cheap

peddling

worthless

secondary

junior-grade

subaltern

lilliputian

not great

meaningless

lower-ranking

odd

petit

immaterial

trite

pettifogging

frivolous

ungenerous

poor

nonsense

nonsignificant

nugatory

null and void

one-horse

dead

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pedantic

penny wise

peripheral

persnickety

basehearted

costive

pier

pimping

pinching

pocket

two-penny

quay

quibbling

remote

scamp

scanty

scarce

scrap

scrimp

scummy

senseless

shabby

shoplifting

short

sixpenny

slender

churlish

cheeseparing

small-time

spoiled

chaffy

subordinate

subtle

captious

trashy

borne

boring

bored

venial

wharf

wretched

close-minded

matterless

mean-spirited

broken piece

two-by-four

ignorable

futile

inadequate

inconsequent

insufficient

intolerant

insular

junk

light

fragments

low

bitsy

marina

base

measly

meticulous

minimal

feeble

miserly

faint

dock

niggardly

meanspirited

dismal

Con guión como

pet‧ty

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈpɛt.i/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: peti

Relativo a francés: petit

In summary

The adjective is derived from Middle English peti, pety (“little, small; minor”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman petit, Middle French petit, and Old French peti, petit, pitet (“young; little, small; inferior; insignificant”) (modern French petit), ultimately of imitative origin. It is no longer thought that the word is derived from Celtic. Doublet of petit and petite.
The noun is derived from the adjective.