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picayunish

adjective

Definition of picayunishnext
as in unimportant

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  1. unimportant
  2. petty
  3. puny
  4. trivial
  5. picayune
  6. nominal
  7. piddling
  8. negligible
Adjective
  • The Analyst can spend all their time answering urgent but unimportant requests.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Wright agrees that the findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that omega-3s are unimportant for the brain.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 14 July 2026
Definition of unimportant
Adjective
  • The good and the bad of democracy — healthy debate and petty political theater — were on display that weekend in Brussels.
    — Esther King, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Mehring’s characters include petty criminals, unscrupulous lawyers, Galician Jews, Freikorps heavies, local and international businessmen, Prussian generals, and the everyday citizens inhabiting the streets of Berlin’s old and rather dingy center.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of petty
Adjective
  • 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
  • For example, in another suit litigating the effects of social media on children, a jury settled in March on the comparatively puny figure of $6 million, distributed between Meta and YouTube.
    — David B Mcgarry, Oc Register, 8 July 2026
Definition of puny
Adjective
  • One of the most interesting and useful things that romantic drama, classic or modern, can do is to distinguish essential characteristics from trivial ones.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026
  • At the same time, the impact/value can be low when autonomous operations are only applied to trivial, time-consuming tasks.
    — Karthik Kannan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 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
  • Patients in Medicaid, the state- and federally-funded program for people with low incomes, already pay a nominal co-payment of a few dollars to fill their prescriptions, but lower prices could help state budgets that fund the programs.
    — Fatima Hussein, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But recent wars have exposed the gap between nominal power and usable military capability.
    — NADIA SCHADLOW, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 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
  • Once in orbit at L2, only minor burns once every 28 days are needed for station keeping — a negligible amount of fuel.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Traditional album sales provided 16,000 units, with a negligible number of track-equivalent units.
    — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of negligible
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“Picayunish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picayunish. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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