Word Meanings - PETTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small

Additional info about word: PETTY

Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or amounts. -- Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army. Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See Petit. Syn. -- Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PETTY)

• Frivolous
• Trifling
• silly
• trivial
• petty
• worthless
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• illiberal
• mean
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• Puny
• Petty
• undeveloped
• undersized
• feeble
• dwarfish
• small
• inferior

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PETTY)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to PETTY)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.