Monday, December 19, 2011

Frivolous Meaning and Usage

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Frivolous Meaning:

- Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.

- Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.

- Unworthy of serious attention; trivial.

- characterized by lack of seriousness or sense.

- self-indulgently carefree; unconcerned about or lacking any serious purpose.

- of little or no weight, worth, or importance; not worthy of serious notice.

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Usage Examples:

a frivolous remark

frivolous details

a frivolous novel

a frivolous purchase

a frivolous argument

the frivolity of his behavior

frivolous conduct

a frivolous suggestion

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Use Frivolous in a sentence:

1. He wasted his time on frivolous pleasures.

2. I have no time for frivolities.

3. She thinks window shopping is a frivolous activity.

4. She knew that people might think her frivolous, Kitty said, to talk to some saint when she had a cooking disaster, but that was what she really believed the saints were there for.

5. The group says it wants politicians to stop wasting public money on what it believes are frivolous projects.

6. I just decided I was a bit too frivolous to be a doctor.

7. While this may seem a slightly frivolous idea, it is far from it.

8. The poker player was frivolous with his money and gambled it all away.

9. Why would I occupy my time with such a frivolous idea.

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Related forms:

Frivolously - adverb

Frivolousness- noun

Frivolity - noun


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Frivolous Synonyms:

childish, dizzy, extravagant, fiddling, flighty, foolish, idle, impractical, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, juvenile, light, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugatory, paltry, peripheral, petty, pointless, puerile, shallow, silly, slight, superficial, trifling, trivial, unimportant, flippant.


Frivolous Antonyms:

important, serious, vital, earnest, responsible, practical, mature, sensible, solemn, big, consequential, eventful, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, weighty


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Some more examples:

1. Smithson went to court on a frivolous lawsuit. The judge admonished him for bringing up such a silly matter before the court and wasting its time.

2. While some meaningful psychological information can be extracted from dream reports, we also should recognize that some aspects of dream content may turn out to be nothing more than frivolous products of the freewheeling improvisation the brain undergoes when input from the external world is shut off while the forebrain is activated.

3. Then, suddenly altering his tone, ‘Excuse this frivolous family badinage, Mr. Malone. I called you back for some more serious purpose than to mix you up with our little domestic pleasantries.’

4. After a frivolous youth devoted mainly to gambling, Peter began his university studies at Lawrence and completed them in 1625 with a doctorate in medicine.

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