trifling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
    dawdling; dalliance.
  2. verb waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
    trifle; piddle away; wanton; wanton away; piddle.
  3. verb act frivolously
    trifle; frivol.
  4. verb consider not very seriously
    trifle; play; dally.
    • He is trifling with her
    • She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania
  5. adjective satellite not worth considering
    paltry; negligible.
    • he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
    • piffling efforts
    • a trifling matter

WordNet

Tri"fling adjective
Definitions
  1. Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.

Webster 1913