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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
niggling
adj 1: (informal) 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"; "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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Niggling \Nig"gling\, a.
1. petty, trivial, or inconsequential.
[PJC]
2. Excessively demanding of time or attention; as, niggling
little details.
[PJC]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
niggling \nig"gling\, n.
Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts), Minute and
very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like,
esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Niggle \Nig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Niggled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Niggling.] [Dim. of Prov. E. nig to clip money; cf. also
Prov. E. nig a small piece.]
To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for niggling:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Mickey Mouse, adverse criticism, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, assiduous, attentive, aware, bad notices, bad press, captious, captiousness, careful, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, concentrated, conscious, critical, criticism, cynical, diligent, earnest, exception, faultfinding, finical, finicking, finicky, flak, frivolous, fussy, hairsplitting, heedful, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, inconsequential, insignificant, intense, intent, intentive, irksome, irritating, jerkwater, knock, measly, meticulous, mindful, nagging, nice, niggle, nit, nit-picking, nugatory, obloquy, observant, observing, on the ball, on the job, one-horse, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcritical, overcriticalness, paltry, peanut, pestering, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, poky, priggishness, punk, puny, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, regardful, reproachfulness, slam, small-beer, small-time, stricture, swipe, taking exception, tinhorn, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, troublesome, two-bit, two-by-four, ultracritical, unimportant, vexatious, vexing, watchful, worrisome, worrying |
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Common Misspellings > |
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