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)

  1. Not occupied; empty.
    vacant lot
  2. 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)

  1. vacant

Further reading

  • “vacant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

vacant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of vac?

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va?ka?t/

Adjective

vacant

  1. 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)

  1. unoccupied

Declension

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trifling

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?a?fli?/

Adjective

trifling (comparative more trifling, superlative most trifling)

  1. 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.
  2. Idle or frivolous.
  3. (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 []

Synonyms

  • trivial
  • inconsequential
  • petty
  • See also Thesaurus:insignificant

Related terms

  • trifle

Translations

Noun

trifling (plural triflings)

  1. 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.

Translations

Verb

trifling

  1. present participle of trifle

Anagrams

  • filtring, flirting

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