| English | French |
|---|---|
| niggling | insignifiant |
| niggling | persistant |
| niggling | chicanerie |
| English - Wordnet 3.0 | |
|---|---|
ADJECTIVE (1) 1. (informal) small and of little importance; - Example: "a fiddling sum of money" - Example: "a footling gesture" - Example: "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war" - Example: "a little (or small) matter" - Example: "a dispute over niggling details" - Example: "limited to petty enterprises" - Example: "piffling efforts" - Example: "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, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial] |