different between vacant vs trifling
vacant
English
Etymology
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ve?k?nt/
Adjective
vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)
- Not occupied; empty.
- vacant lot
- Showing no intelligence or interest.
- a vacant stare
Synonyms
- (Not occupied): available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied
- (Showing no intelligence or interest): vacuous, thousand mile stare
Derived terms
- vacancy noun
- vacantly adverb
Related terms
- unfilled
- vacate verb
Translations
Anagrams
- Van cat
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.k??/
Adjective
vacant (feminine singular vacante, masculine plural vacants, feminine plural vacantes)
- vacant
Further reading
- “vacant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
vacant
- third-person plural present active indicative of vac?
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?ka?t/
Adjective
vacant
- vacant
Romanian
Etymology
From French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Adjective
vacant m or n (feminine singular vacant?, masculine plural vacan?i, feminine and neuter plural vacante)
- unoccupied
Declension
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trifling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?a?fli?/
Adjective
trifling (comparative more trifling, superlative most trifling)
- Trivial, or of little importance.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.
- […] it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.
- Idle or frivolous.
- (African-American Vernacular) Of suspicious character, typically secretive or deceitful; shady.
- 2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World
- My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]
- 2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World
Synonyms
- trivial
- inconsequential
- petty
- See also Thesaurus:insignificant
Related terms
- trifle
Translations
Noun
trifling (plural triflings)
- The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
- 1845, George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.
- 1845, George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
Translations
Verb
trifling
- present participle of trifle
Anagrams
- filtring, flirting
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