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| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit |
| Antonyms: | gravity, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | minutiae |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trivial detail |
| Synonyms: | incidental, minor detail, small detail, trifle, trivia, trivial matter, triviality, unimportant detail, useless information |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
| Synonyms: | banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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