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trivialities
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pettiness |
| Synonyms: | baseness, cheapness, frivolousness, inconsequence, inconsiderableness, irrelevance, measliness, negligibility, negligible, negligibleness, paltriness, shabbiness, smallness, subordination, trifle, trivialness, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | trivia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | details |
| Synonyms: | fine points, memorabilia, minutiae, trifles, trivialities |
| Antonyms: | generality, importance, significance, weight |
| Main Entry: | minutia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trivia |
| Synonyms: | fiddle-faddle, fine points, frippery, frivolity, froth, memorabilia, minutiae, nonsense, small change, small potatoes, trifle, trifles, trivialities, triviality |
| Main Entry: | small potatoes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trivia |
| Synonyms: | fiddle-faddle, fine points, frippery, frivolity, froth, memorabilia, minutia, minutiae, nonsense, small change, trifle, trifles, trivialities, triviality |
| Main Entry: | banality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common saying |
| Synonyms: | adage, boiler, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, corn, dullsville, familiar tune, high camp, hokum, old chestnut, old saw, plate, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, saw, trite phrase, trivia, triviality, truism |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance, original saying |
| Main Entry: | cliché |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overused, hackneyed phrase |
| Synonyms: | adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, motto, old story, platitude, potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stale saying, stereotype, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapid expression |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | detail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feature, specific aspect |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, accessory, article, brass tacks, chapter and verse, circumstantiality, component, count, cue, design, dope*, element, fact, factor, fine point, fraction, item, meat and potatoes, minor point, minutia, nicety, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, part, particular, peculiarity, plan, point, portion, respect, schedule, singularity, specialty, specification, structure, technicality, thing, trait, trivia, triviality |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | folly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, ridiculous idea |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, craziness, daftness, dottiness, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, fatuity, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, impracticality, imprudence, inadvisability, inanity, indiscretion, irrationality, lunacy, madness, obliquity, preposterousness, rashness, recklessness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, triviality, unsoundness, vice, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | judgment, knowledge, seriousness, understanding, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
| Synonyms: | coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy |
| Antonyms: | sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
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