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NIGGLING

Dictionary entry overview: What does niggling mean?

• NIGGLING (adjective)
The adjective NIGGLING has 1 sense:

1. (informal) small and of little importance

Familiarity information: NIGGLING used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NIGGLING (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(informal) small and of little importance

Synonyms:

fiddling; piffling; piddling; picayune; trivial; niggling; footling; petty; lilliputian; little

Context examples:

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 / 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

Similar:

unimportant (not important)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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