PIDDLY Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

piddly

adjective

ˈpid-lē

Definition of piddly

as in slight

so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer

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Recent Examples of piddly The piddly fines certainly aren’t a deterrent. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026 This stole the top spot from 1993, with its piddly 76 days over 100. — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024 Byrne is still a United States congressman and that’s no piddly thing. — Kyle Whitmire, al, 7 Nov. 2019 This information isn't written in the controller's piddly instruction manual. — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018 After Kilauea's 1924 summit explosions, the volcano entered a decade of piddly rumblings, followed by 18 years of silence. — Sophia Yan and Malcolm Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2018

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Adjective

And while there are slight deviations between Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennial shopping habits, Gen Z appears to be changing the game altogether.

— Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Made from 98-percent cotton and 2-percent spandex, these pants have a slight stretch to them along with functional front and back pockets.

— Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of slight

Adjective

If interest expense exceeds nominal GDP growth, a debt spiral could occur.

— Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Municipal compost operations tend only to accept leaves generated by that town and may also provide small quantities of finished compost to residents for free or at a nominal charge, according to DEEP.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of nominal

Adjective

Researchers implant pairs of tiny magnets into a muscle and position external sensors over the skin.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
To stretch your legs, grab one of the resort’s bikes and take the half-hour ride on the narrow, largely traffic-free dirt road down to Punto Allen, a tiny fishing village with a picturesque lighthouse.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of tiny

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

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

Although that may sound insignificant, today’s technology would not exist without the underlying basic research.

— Mattanjah de Vries, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
One even found that there's a not-insignificant relationship between having a larger analytics staff and winning more games.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of insignificant

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

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