Petty

Adjective

 * 1) (obsolete except in set phrases) little, small, secondary in rank or importance
 * Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. (Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1671)
 * petty officer, petty cash
 * 1) insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable
 * a petty fault
 * 1) narrow-minded, small-minded

Derived terms

 * petty cash
 * petty officer
 * petty king
 * pettiness

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant

Adverbs for Petty
frivolously; meanly; insignificantly; ridiculously; contemptibly; miserably; absurdly; childishly; pitiably; curiously; singularly; particularly;  extraordinarily;   extremely; terribly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From petit, English since the late 14th century. The disparaging meaning develops during the 16th century.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Italian: piccolo
 * Macedonian: ситен,


 * Polish: nieistotny, drobny, błahy
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: пустячный,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: småaktig, liten, obetydlig
 * Welsh: