trifle

trifle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
2. noun. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
3. noun. To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
4. transitive verb. To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.
5. transitive verb. To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.
6. noun. something of small importance

   Synonyms: trivia, triviality

7. noun. a detail that is considered insignificant

   Synonyms: technicality, triviality

8. noun. a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
9. verb. consider not very seriously

   "He is trifling with her"

   "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

   Synonyms: dally, play

10. verb. act frivolously

    Synonyms: frivol

11. verb. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

    Synonyms: piddle, wanton

Synonyms

trivia, triviality, technicality, dally, play, frivol, piddle, wanton

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trifle:

fertil, filter, filtre, lifter, relift

Common word forms

trifled, trifler, trifles, trifling

Words from these letters

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