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piffling |
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb piffle 1 of 2 senses of piffle Sense 1 chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble => babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb piffle 1 of 2 senses of piffle Sense 1 chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble => babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither Entailment of verb piffle Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb piffle 2 senses of piffle Sense 1 chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize Sense 2 piffle => act behave, do Familiarity of verb piffle piffle used as a verb is rare (polysemy count = 2) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb piffle Sense 1 chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize -------------- Sense 2 piffle => act behave, do -------------- Overview of verb piffle The verb piffle has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble -- (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly) 2. piffle -- (act in a trivial or ineffective way) Overview of adj piffling The adj piffling 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 piffling 1 sense of piffling Sense 1 fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial INDIRECT (VIA unimportant) -> important, of import Similarity of adj piffling 1 sense of piffling Sense 1 fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial => unimportant (vs. important) Attributes of adj piffling Familiarity of adj piffling piffling used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj piffling piffling Overview of verb piffle The verb piffle has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble -- (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly) 2. piffle -- (act in a trivial or ineffective way) Overview of adj piffling The adj piffling 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")
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