trifle
1. a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly;
may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
• Hypernyms:
pudding, pud
• Hyponyms:
tipsy cake
2. a detail that is considered insignificant
• Syn:
technicality, triviality
• Derivationally related forms:
trivial (for: triviality), technical (for: technicality)
• Hypernyms:
detail, item, point
3. something of small importance
• Syn:
triviality, trivia, small beer
• Derivationally related forms:
trivial (for: trivia)
• Hypernyms:
object, physical object
• Hyponyms:
bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
1. consider not very seriously
- He is trifling with her
- She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania
• Syn:
dally, play
• Hypernyms:
consider, take, deal, look at
• Verb Group:
dally, toy, play, flirt
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
- Sam wants to trifle with Sue
2. act frivolously
• Syn:
frivol
• Derivationally related forms:
trifler
• Hypernyms:
act, behave, do
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. waste time;
spend one's time idly or inefficiently
• Syn:
piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away
• Derivationally related forms:
trifling
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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