petty
Meaning of petty
noun
- (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
- A class or school for young schoolboys.
- An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
- Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
a petty fault
- Narrow-minded, small-minded.
- 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
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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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