Found 3 items, similar to petty.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: petty
cupat, picik, remeh
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: petty
petty
adj 1: inferior in rank or status;
“the junior faculty”;
“a lowly
corporal”;
“petty officialdom”;
“a subordinate
functionary” [syn:
junior-grade,
inferior,
lower,
lower-ranking,
lowly,
petty(a),
secondary,
subaltern,
subordinate]
2: (informal terms) small and of little importance;
“a fiddling
sum of money”;
“a footling gesture”;
“our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
war”;
“a little (or small) matter”;
“Mickey Mouse
regulations”;
“a dispute over niggling details”;
“limited
to petty enterprises”;
“piffling efforts”;
“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,
Mickey Mouse,
niggling,
piddling,
piffling,
picayune,
trivial]
3: contemptibly narrow in outlook;
“petty little comments”;
“disgusted with their small-minded pettiness” [syn:
small-minded]
[also:
pettiest,
pettier]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Petty
Petty
\Pet"ty\, a. [Compar.
Pettier; superl.
Pettiest.] [OE.
petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E.
piece. Cf.
Petit.]
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior;
subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. --Denham.
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Like a petty god
I walked about, admired of all. --Milton.
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Petty averages. See under
Average.
Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or
amounts.
Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc.,
corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.
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Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty
treason, See
Petit.
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Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling;
trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
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