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English

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɛti|-ɛti

Adjective

little|Little, trifling, or inconsiderable, as a petty fault.

Translations

Czech: drobný
French: petit
German: klein, gering, unbedeutend

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Petty \Pet"ty\ (p[e^]t"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Pettier
(p[e^]t"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Pettiest.] [OE. petit, F.
petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E. piece. Cf.
Petit.]
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; unimportant; also,
inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; petty complaints; a
petty prince. --Denham.
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Like a petty god
I walked about, admired of all. --Milton.
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Petty averages. See under Average.

Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or
amounts.

Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc.,
corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.
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Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty
treason, See Petit.
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Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling;
trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
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WordNet petty
adj 1: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly
corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate
functionary" [syn: junior-grade, inferior, lower,
lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern,
subordinate]
2: (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse
regulations"; "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" [syn: fiddling, footling,
lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling,
piffling, picayune, trivial]
3: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments";
"disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: small-minded]
[also: pettiest, pettier]

Moby Dictionary
Mickey Mouse , abject , abominable , arrant , atrocious , authoritarian ,
base , beggarly , bickering , bigot , bigoted , borne , captious , casual ,
caviling , cheap , cheesy , choplogic , close , closed , constricted ,
contemptible , cramped , creedbound , crummy , cursory , deaf ,
deaf to reason , debased , deficient , degraded , depraved , depthless ,
despicable , dinky , dirty , disgusting , equivocatory , evasive ,
execrable , fanatical , few , flagrant , footling , foul , fulsome ,
grave , gross , grudging , hairsplitting , hedging , heinous , hidebound ,
illiberal , imperfect , impertinent , inadequate , incompetent ,
inconsequent , inconsequential , inconsiderable , inessential ,
inferior , insignificant , insufficient , insular , irrelevant ,
jerkwater , light , little , little-minded , logic-chopping , low ,
low-down , lumpen , maladroit , mangy , meager , mean , mean-minded ,
mean-spirited , measly , mediocre , mingy , miniature , minor ,
miserable , miserly , monstrous , narrow , narrow-hearted ,
narrow-minded , narrow-souled , narrow-spirited , nearsighted ,
nefarious , negligible , niggardly , niggling , nit-picking ,
no great shakes , not comparable , not in it , nugatory , obnoxious ,
odious , of no account , one-horse , out of it , paltering , paltry ,
parochial , parsimonious , peanut , peddling , pettifogging , picayune ,
picayunish , piddling , piffling , pimping , poky , poor , provincial ,
punk , puny , purblind , pussyfooting , quibbling , rank , reptilian ,
scabby , scrubby , scruffy , scummy , scurvy , shabby , shallow , shoddy ,
shoestring , short , shortsighted , shuffling , skin-deep , slight ,
small , small-beer , small-minded , small-time , squalid , stingy ,
straitlaced , stuffy , superficial , tight , tight-fisted , tinhorn ,
tiny , trichoschistic , trifling , trinal , trivial , two-bit ,
two-by-four , twopenny-halfpenny , uncatholic , uncharitable ,
unchivalrous , unconsidered , ungenerous , unimportant , unliberal ,
unmentionable , unskillful , vile , wretched

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