petty

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. trivial, unimportant, small, mean, trifling; contemptible, spiteful. See unimportance. Ant., serious, major, important.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Trivial]

Syn. small, insignificant, frivolous; see trivial , unimportant .

2. [Mean]

Syn. small-minded, close-minded, narrow, narrow-minded, insular, parochial; see also mean 3 .

3. [Inferior]

Syn. puny, weak, undersized; see poor 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. unimportant trivial, insignificant, minor, piddling, frivolous, inconsequential, *two-bit, picayune, trifling.

2. small-minded mean, unreasonable, ungenerous, grudging.

ANT.: 1. important, weighty, consequential. 2. *big, broad-minded

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Contemptibly unimportant: inconsiderable, negligible, niggling, nugatory, paltry, picayune, piddling, small, small-minded, trifling. Slang: measly. Idiom: of no account. See IMPORTANT. 2. Not broad or elevated in scope or understanding: limited, little, narrow, narrow-minded, small, small-minded. See LIMITED, WIDE. 3. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See GIVE. 4. Below another in standing or importance: inferior, junior, lesser, low, lower2, minor, minor-league, secondary, small, subaltern, subordinate, under. Informal: smalltime. See OVER.