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picayune |
Overview of adj picayune The adj picayune has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((informal terms) small and of little importance; "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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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 of adj picayune 1 sense of picayune Sense 1 fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial INDIRECT (VIA unimportant) -> important, of import Similarity of adj picayune 1 sense of picayune Sense 1 fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial => unimportant (vs. important) Attributes of adj picayune Familiarity of adj picayune picayune used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj picayune picayune Overview of adj picayune The adj picayune has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((informal terms) small and of little importance; "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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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")
picayune definition
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