picayunish

adjective

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  1. picayune
  2. unimportant
  3. piddling
  4. petty
  5. puny
  6. trivial
  7. nominal
  8. negligible
Adjective
  • At this point you may be exhausted by the exploration of picayune facts.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
  • But only a fool would harp on picayune flaws when this rich material is being served with such musical polish and sensitivity.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
Definition of picayune
Adjective
  • To those who don’t yet own an EV, a robust infrastructure may seem unimportant.
    — Wally Rippel, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Saying that facts are constructed through social processes is not the same as saying facts are unimportant or made up.
    — Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of unimportant
Adjective
  • Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%.
    — Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
Definition of piddling
Adjective
  • That sketch, coming just before the episode’s closing performance by Cypress Hill, was the hour’s peak, containing all the promise of petty obsessions afforded airtime in a chorus of besuited actors shouting a monologue as one.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This isn’t to say the vigilante trans group in the new world is free of petty catfights.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of petty
Adjective
  • The volume of noteworthy art is greater than ever before, and our list, even at a monumental 100 works, with some 15,000 words of copy to accompany them, looks puny in comparison.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Health Care The second-worst sector over the past 12 months was health care, up a puny 4.6%.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of puny
Adjective
  • What’s at risk The impact of an output such as calling a blueberry muffin a chihuahua may seem trivial, but consider the different kinds of technologies that use image recognition systems: An autonomous vehicle that fails to identify objects could lead to a fatal traffic accident.
    — Anna Choi, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The under-the-table payments at the center of the case, which involved sums of up to $100,000, now seem trivial in comparison to the rapidly escalating figures involved in today’s NIL economy.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of trivial
Adjective
  • According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.
    — Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.
    — PCMAG, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of nominal
Adjective
  • The probability of being hit by a primordial black hole is negligible, says Loeb.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Changes and modifications to reduce risk aren’t cost free, of course — vent covers may be negligible, but a new roof and siding may well be prohibitive for many households.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of negligible
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