Synonyms of the word

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.

fiddling

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

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.

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

junior

• adj. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
• adj. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
• adj. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
• adj. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh…
• n. A younger person.
• n. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun…
• n. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.

larceny

• n. (law) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
• n. (law) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

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.

lowly

• adj. Not high; not elevated in place; low.
• adj. Low in rank or social importance.
• adj. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
• adj. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
• adv. In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
• adv. In a low condition; meanly.

narrow

• adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison…
• adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
• adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
• adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted.
• adj. Having a small margin or degree.
• adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened.
• adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
• adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
• adj. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate;…
• v. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
• v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait…

narrow-minded

• adj. Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas.
• adj. Intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced.

niggling

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

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.

secondary

• adj. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
• adj. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
• adj. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic…
• adj. (geology) produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass.
• adj. (geology) developed by pressure or other causes.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
• adj. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
• adj. Of less than primary importance.
• adj. (education) related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18.
• adj. (manufacturing) relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
• adj. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
• n. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
• n. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or…
• n. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
• n. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
• n. (astronomy) A satellite.
• n. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

small-minded

• adj. Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture.

stealing

• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to steal.
• n. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) That which is stolen; stolen property.
• v. present participle of steal.

subaltern

• adj. Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer,…
• adj. (logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
• n. A subordinate.
• n. (Britain) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
• n. (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows…
• n. (social sciences) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the…

subordinate

• adj. Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
• adj. Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
• adj. (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause.
• n. (countable) One who is subordinate.
• v. (transitive) To make subservient.
• v. (transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
• v. (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.

theft

• n. The act of stealing property.

thievery

• n. The act of theft, the act of stealing.
• n. (obsolete) That which is stolen.

thieving

• v. present participle of thieve.
• adj. That thieves; that steals.
• n. The action of theft.

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.