Frivolous

Adjective

 * 1) Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
 * "There is no easy definition for the phrase 'frivolous lawsuit,' but I imagine any claim for damages where the injuries are minimal or where the basis for the defendant's liability is hard to believe, might qualify as frivolous." &mdash; Paul F. Waldner, President-Elect, Houston Trial Lawyers Association, Viewpoints, Houston Chronicle, August 31, 1996 (citation)
 * "One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits." &mdash;
 * 1) Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.

Derived terms

 * frivolent
 * frivolously
 * frivolousness

Related terms

 * frivol
 * frivolity

Adverbs for Frivolous
wildly; foolishly; entertainingly; absurdly; gaily; blithely; idly; childishly; utterly; senselessly; lightly; ridiculously; ludicrously;  capriciously;   fantastically;   giddily; wantonly; freakishly; blatantly; extravagantly; nonsensically; vacantly; hilariously.

Thesaurus
aimless, airy, amorphous, asinine, birdbrained, birdwitted, brainless, buxom, capricious, casual, catchpenny, childish, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, dizzy, empty, empty-headed, erratic, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, fitful, flighty, flimsy, flip, flippant, fluffy, fluttery, foolish, formless, fribble, fribbling, frothy, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, gleeful, gratuitous, haphazard, harebrain, harebrained, hilarious, hit-or-miss, idle, immethodical, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential, indiscriminate, insignificant, irregular, irresponsible, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, light, meaningless, merry, minor, mirth-loving, mirthful, misshapen, niggling, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugacious, nugatory, orderless, otiose, paltry, peripheral, petty, planless, playful, promiscuous, puerile, random, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, rejoicing, risible, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, senseless, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, shapeless, shatterbrained, silly, slender, slight, small-time, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, superficial, systemless, thoughtless, trifling, trite, trivial, two-bit, twopenny, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unprofound, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, volatile, wandering, windy, witless, worthless

Etymology
From frivolus:.

Translations

 * Armenian: թեթևամիտ
 * Catalan: frívol
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,  ,
 * French:
 * German:
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 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: bezmyślny
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: несерьезный, легкомысленный;  ветреный;
 * Spanish:, frívola
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: չնչին,
 * Catalan: frívol, tonto, trivial
 * Finnish:, jonninjoutava
 * French: ,


 * Polish: frywolny
 * Russian:, ,  пустяковый
 * Spanish: tonteria, menudencia,  grano de anís,  moco de pavo