PICAYUNISH Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

picayunish

adjective

Definition of picayunish

as in unimportant

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Adjective

Anything that seems relatively unimportant, like who sits on what dais, becomes the calamity of the century.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
That said, this does not mean the Detect, Respond and Recover pillars of the NIST CSF are unimportant.

— Andrew Ginter, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of unimportant

Adjective

The other was Albrecht Hohler, thirty, a Communist member of the paramilitary group the Red Front Fighters and well known locally as a particularly vicious thug—a petty criminal who had been released from jail only a few months earlier.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
Here, the book loosens its grip on its wholesome view of the Westish clique, letting its characters do several ugly and petty and longed-for things—letting them, in other words, grow up.

— Emma Alpern, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of petty

Adjective

The losers will be SpaceX’s current shareholders that give up almost half their company for puny profits and big promises.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
To achieve a similar impact, Johnson appears to be wearing a muscular silicone suit over his 6-foot-5 frame, but the extra padding just makes his head look puny.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of puny

Adjective

These sounds are strange bedfellows, but the delirium rarely feels indulgent or trivial.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Wiring the Teensy to the magnetic-imaging tile was trivial, only complicated by the fact that one side of the board has a silk-screen error that misidentifies the SPI connections (SparkFun says this will be fixed in future runs of the board).

— Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of trivial

Adjective

The two events share a history — one that illustrates just how the plate program has become picayune, politicized and potentially hazardous to public safety.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
By itself, this habit might seem picayune.

— Jeet Heer, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2025

Definition of picayune

Adjective

The latest cells can retain around 90 percent of their nominal capacity at temperatures as low as -40°C (-40°F), outperforming conventional lithium-ion chemistries, particularly LFP.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
Recordings averaged six hours and 38 minutes, roughly half a battery’s nominal life, the report said.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of nominal

Adjective

Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%.

— Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling.

— Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020

Definition of piddling

Adjective

It could be used to create speed-of-light connections between server racks in AI data centers that generate almost no heat and consume negligible energy.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Atmospheric drag there is negligible, so losing fuel does not send them quickly back to Earth.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

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