picayune 音标拼音: [p
, ɪkij'un]
n . 小钱币,五分钱币,无聊之物
a . 无聊的,不值钱的
小钱币,五分钱币,无聊之物无聊的,不值钱的
picayune 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 " [
synonym : {
fiddling }, {
footling }, {
lilliputian },
{
little }, {
niggling }, {
piddling }, {
piffling }, {
petty },
{
picayune }, {
trivial }]
Picayune \
Pic `
a *
yune "\,
n . [
From the language of the Caribs .]
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents .
See {
Fippenny bit }. [
Local ,
U .
S .]
[
1913 Webster ]
[
1913 Webster ]
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "
picayune ":
a continental ,
a curse ,
a damn ,
a darn ,
a hoot ,
bagatelle ,
bauble ,
bean ,
bibelot ,
bickering ,
bit ,
brass farthing ,
button ,
captious ,
caviling ,
cent ,
choplogic ,
curio ,
cursory ,
depthless ,
detailed ,
equivocatory ,
evasive ,
exact ,
farce ,
farthing ,
feather ,
few ,
fig ,
finicky ,
fleabite ,
folderol ,
footling ,
fribble ,
frippery ,
full ,
fussy ,
gaud ,
gewgaw ,
gimcrack ,
hair ,
hairsplitting ,
halfpenny ,
hedging ,
hill of beans ,
immateriality ,
inconsequence ,
inconsequent ,
inconsequential ,
inconsequentiality ,
inconsiderable ,
inconsiderableness ,
indifference ,
ineffectuality ,
inferiority ,
insignificance ,
insignificant ,
irrelevance ,
jerkwater ,
jest ,
joke ,
kickshaw ,
knickknack ,
knickknackery ,
little ,
littleness ,
logic -
chopping ,
low ,
low priority ,
marginality ,
meager ,
measly ,
meticulous ,
miniature ,
minikin ,
minute ,
mockery ,
molehill ,
negligibility ,
negligible ,
nice ,
niggling ,
nit -
picking ,
no great shakes ,
one -
horse ,
paltering ,
paltry ,
particular ,
peppercorn ,
pettifogging ,
pettiness ,
petty ,
picayunish ,
picayunishness ,
piddling ,
piffling ,
pin ,
pinch of snuff ,
pinprick ,
pokiness ,
poky ,
precise ,
puniness ,
punk ,
puny ,
pussyfooting ,
quibbling ,
rap ,
red cent ,
row of pins ,
rush ,
secondariness ,
shallow ,
shit ,
short ,
shuffling ,
skin -
deep ,
slightness ,
small ,
small -
beer ,
small -
time ,
smallness ,
snap ,
sneeshing ,
sou ,
special ,
specific ,
straw ,
superficial ,
tinhorn ,
tiny ,
toy ,
trichoschistic ,
trifle ,
trifling ,
trinket ,
trivial ,
triviality ,
tuppence ,
two cents ,
two -
bit ,
two -
by -
four ,
twopence ,
unimportance ,
unimpressiveness ,
unnoteworthiness ,
whim -
wham
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