Synonyms for trifle
ˈtraɪ fəltri·fle

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1. triflenoun

   To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

   Synonyms:
   jot, scrap, iota, whit

2. trifleverb

   To inconsequentially toy with something.

   Synonyms:
   bagatelle, whiffle

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. triflenoun

   Synonyms:
   bauble, bagatelle, toy, straw, nothing, triviality, levity, joke, cipher, bubble, gewgaw, kickshaw, rush

   Antonyms:
   treasure, portent, phenomenon, crisis, conjuncture, importance, urgency, weight, necessity, seriousness

2. trifle

   Synonyms:
   toy, play, dally, wanton, quibble, fribble

   Antonyms:
   treat, cope, tackle, grapple, deal

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. triflenoun

   a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate

   Synonyms:
   small beer, trivia, technicality, triviality

2. technicality, trifle, trivialitynoun

   a detail that is considered insignificant

   Synonyms:
   pettiness, technicality, triviality, small beer, slightness, puniness, trivia

3. triviality, trivia, trifle, small beerverb

   something of small importance

   Synonyms:
   pettiness, technicality, triviality, small beer, slightness, puniness, trivia

4. piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifleverb

   waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

   Synonyms:
   wanton away, wee, wee-wee, piddle away, play, piddle, dally, urinate, frivol, relieve oneself, micturate, pass water, wanton, trifle away, puddle, piss, spend a penny, luxuriate, take a leak, make water, make, pee-pee, pee

5. frivol, trifleverb

   act frivolously

   Synonyms:
   play, frivol, piddle, wanton, piddle away, wanton away, dally

6. dally, trifle, playverb

   consider not very seriously

   "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

   Synonyms:
   take on, fiddle, wanton, bet, spiel, act, romance, run, flirt, dally, diddle, meet, coquette, piddle, roleplay, chat up, butterfly, act as, toy, encounter, playact, work, dawdle, make for, piddle away, play, represent, wanton away, frivol, bring, recreate, philander, coquet, mash, wreak, wager

Matched Categories

1. • Consider
   • Detail
   • Pudding

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1. trifleverb

   Synonyms:
   act with levity, be busy about trifles, PIDDLE

2. trifleverb

   Synonyms:
   talk idly or frivolously, toy, wanton

3. triflenoun

   Synonyms:
   BAGATELLE, triviality, pittance, modicum, small matter, thing of little value or consequence, thing of no moment, drop in the bucket, shadow of a shade

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1. triflenoun

   Synonyms:
   triviality, bagatelle, doit

2. trifleverb

   Synonyms:
   dawdle, dally, pother, fribble, quiddle

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1. List of paraphrases for "trifle":

   little, misery

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How to use trifle in a sentence?

1. Saadi Shirazi:

   Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

2. E. B. White:

   You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

3. Alexander Pope:

   At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

4. Michelangelo Buonarroti:

   Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.

5. Michelangelo:

   Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.