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petty |
Grep of noun petty chief petty officer petty apartheid petty bourgeoisie petty cash petty criticism petty juror petty jury petty larceny petty morel petty officer petty spurge petty whin Overview of adj petty The adj petty has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern, subordinate -- (inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary") 2. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction") 3. petty, small-minded -- (contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness") Antonyms of adj petty 3 senses of petty Sense 1 junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(postnominal), secondary, subaltern, subordinate INDIRECT (VIA junior) -> senior Sense 2 fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial INDIRECT (VIA unimportant) -> important, of import Sense 3 petty, small-minded INDIRECT (VIA narrow-minded) -> broad-minded Similarity of adj petty 3 senses of petty Sense 1 junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(postnominal), secondary, subaltern, subordinate => junior (vs. senior) Sense 2 fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial => unimportant (vs. important) Sense 3 petty, small-minded => narrow-minded (vs. broad-minded), narrow Attributes of adj petty Familiarity of adj petty petty used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj petty petty Overview of adj petty The adj petty has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern, subordinate -- (inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary") 2. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction") 3. petty, small-minded -- (contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness")
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