petty

Meaning of petty

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
  2. A class or school for young schoolboys.
  3. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
adjective
  1. Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
  2. Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
    a petty fault
  3. Narrow-minded, small-minded.
  4. Begrudging in nature, especially over insignificant matters.
    That corporation is only slightly pettier than they are greedy, and they are overdue to reap the consequences.

Information about petty

  • The plural form of petty is: petties.
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Hyphenation of petty

petty

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • petty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

petty synonyms

Meaning junior-grade:

inferior, lowly, secondary, subaltern, subordinate

Meaning fiddling:

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial

Meaning :

grudgeful, grudging

Words that rhyme with petty

Etty, Betty, betty, cotbetty, dancetty, Getty, brigetty, Hetty, chetty, witchetty, jetty, Ketty, ketty, pernicketty, ricketty, Letty, billetty, gletty, noveletty, Metty, humetty, pommetty, Netty, coronetty, gurnetty, kernetty, netty, Petty, bepretty, fleuretty, floretty, fretty, pretty, spretty, thretty, unfretty, unpretty, rosetty, sunsetty, tetty, suetty, swivetty, Yetty

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