Synonyms of the word

footling

• adj. Trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating.
• v. present participle of footle.
• n. A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.

fiddling

• v. present participle of fiddle.
• n. action of the verb to fiddle.
• adj. Of petty or trivial importance; footling.

lilliputian

• n. A very small person or being.
• adj. Very small, diminutive.
• adj. Trivial, petty.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

niggling

• v. present participle of niggle.
• adj. petty.
• n. A sensation that niggles.

petty

• adj. (obsolete except in set phrases) Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
• adj. Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
• adj. Narrow-minded, small-minded.
• n. (usually in the plural, obsolete) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
• n. (now historical) A class or school for young schoolboys.
• n. (dialect, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

picayune

• adj. Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance; picayunish;.
• adj. Small-minded: being childishly spiteful, tending to go on about unimportant things.
• n. (US, especially Louisiana, archaic) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents; a fippenny bit.
• n. (archaic) A five-cent piece.
• n. Something of very little value; a trifle.
• n. An argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger…

piddling

• adj. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
• v. present participle of piddle.

piffling

• v. present participle of piffle.
• adj. unimportant.

trivial

• adj. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
• adj. Commonplace, ordinary.
• adj. Concerned with or involving trivia.
• adj. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
• adj. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
• adj. (mathematics) Self-evident.
• adj. Pertaining to the trivium.
• adj. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
• n. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

unimportant

• adj. petty; not important or noteworthy.