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frivolous - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: frivolous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trivial, silly
Synonyms: barmy*, childish, dizzy*, empty-headed*, facetious, featherbrained*, flighty, flip, flippant, foolish, gay, giddy*, harebrained*, idiotic, idle, impractical, juvenile, light, minor, niggling*, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful, pointless, puerile, scatterbrained*, senseless, shallow, sportive, superficial, tongue-in-cheek*, unimportant, volatile, whimsical, ill-considered, light-minded, nonserious, not serious, unprofound
Antonyms: grave, mature, sensible, serious, solemn, thoughtful, wise
Main Entry: aimless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having no goal
Synonyms: accidental, any which way, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, erratic, fanciful, fickle, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss*, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward, bits-and-pieces, directionless, drifting, fits and starts, goalless, objectless, undirected, unguided
Antonyms: determined, directed, pointed, purposeful, resolute, goal-oriented, motivated
Main Entry: childish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: immature, silly
Synonyms: adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff*, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful, infantine
Notes: childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior
Antonyms: adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise
Main Entry: empty-headed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flighty, scatterbrained
Synonyms: brainless, dizzy, featherbrained, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, ignorant, illiterate, inane, silly, skittish, stupid, uneducated, unschooled, untaught, vacant, vacuous, know-nothing
Antonyms: cognizant, intelligent, sensible, slick, smart
Main Entry: facetious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tongue-in-cheek, kidding
Synonyms: amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip*, flippant, frivolous, funny, gay, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one's leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry
Antonyms: formal, grave, serious, unfunny
Main Entry: fickle
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vacillating, blowing hot and cold
Synonyms: arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, ticklish, two-timing, unfaithful, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, whimsical, coquettish, double-crossing, lubricious, quicksilver, sneaking, yo-yo
Antonyms: aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable, steady
Main Entry: flighty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fickle, irresponsible
Synonyms: capricious, changeable, dizzy*, effervescent, empty-headed, featherbrained*, frivolous, giddy, harebrained*, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, lightheaded, lively, mercurial, scatterbrained, silly, thoughtless, unbalanced, unstable, unsteady, volatile, whimsical, wild, airheaded, birdbrained, bubbleheaded, dingbat, dingdong, gaga, twit
Antonyms: responsible
Main Entry: flippant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irreverent
Synonyms: brassy, breezy, cheeky*, cocky, disrespectful, flighty, flip*, fresh, frivolous, glib, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy*, offhand, pert, playful, rude, sassy*, smart*, superficial, lippy, smart-alecky
Antonyms: courteous, respectful, reverent, serious
Main Entry: giddy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly, impulsive
Synonyms: brainless, capricious, careless, changeable, dizzy, empty-headed*, erratic, fickle, flighty*, frivolous, heedless, inconstant, irresolute, irresponsible, lightheaded*, punchy*, reckless, scatterbrained*, skittish*, slaphappy*, swimming*, thoughtless, unbalanced, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, volatile, whimsical, whirling, wild, woozy*, bemused, bubbleheaded, changeful, ditzy, flustered, gaga, reeling
Antonyms: calm, careful, level-headed, sensible, serious
Main Entry: harebrained
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid, unthinking
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, barmy, bizarre, careless, changeable, crazy, dizzy*, empty-headed*, featherbrained*, flighty, foolish, frivolous, giddy, half-baked*, heedless, inane, irresponsible, loony*, mindless, preposterous, rash, reckless, scatterbrained*, unstable, unsteady, wacky*, wild, rattlebrained
Antonyms: brainy, intelligent, reasonable, sensible, smart, thoughtful
Main Entry: inane
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, daft, empty, fatuous, flat, foolish, frivolous, futile, harebrained*, idiotic, illogical, innocuous, insipid, jejune, laughable, meaningless, mindless, pointless, puerile, ridiculous, sappy*, senseless, silly, trifling, unintelligent, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, weak, wishy-washy*, worthless, imbecilic
Antonyms: bright, intelligent, smart
Main Entry: light-headed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly; feeling faint
Synonyms: changeable, delirious, dizzy, empty, featherbrained*, fickle, flighty, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained*, hazy, punchy*, rocky, scatterbrained*, shallow, superficial, swimming, tired, trifling, vertiginous, whirling, woozy*, gaga, reeling, swimmy
Antonyms: healthy, sober, ok
Main Entry: madcap
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crazy, impulsive
Synonyms: brash, foolhardy, foolish, frivolous, harebrained*, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, lively, rash, reckless, stupid, thoughtless, wild
Antonyms: reasonable, sane
Main Entry: petty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trivial, insignificant
Synonyms: base, casual, cheap, contemptible, frivolous, inferior, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, lower, measly, minor, narrow-minded, negligible, niggling*, paltry, peanut*, picayune, piddling*, scratch, secondary, shabby, shallow, slight, small, small-minded, subordinate, trifling, two-bit*, unimportant, inconsequent, inconsiderable, inessential, nickel-and-dime, penny-ante, pettifogging, shoestring*
Antonyms: consequential, important, major, necessary, prominent, significant, useful
Main Entry: picayune
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trivial
Synonyms: diminutive, everyday, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, minor, minute, negligible, nonessential, paltry, petty, piddling*, puny, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, inconsiderable, of no account
Main Entry: scatterbrained
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not thinking clearly
Synonyms: careless, dizzy, empty-headed*, featherbrained*, flighty, forgetful, frivolous, giddy, harebrained*, illogical, inattentive, irrational, irresponsible, madcap, silly, slaphappy*, stupid, thoughtless, birdbrained
Antonyms: aware, careful, sensible, thoughtful
Main Entry: skittish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very nervous
Synonyms: capricious, changeable, combustible, dizzy*, edgy, excitable, excited, fearful, fickle, fidgety, flighty, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, high-strung*, irresponsible, jumpy, lightheaded, lively, peppy, playful, restive, scatterbrained*, sensitive, spirited, undependable, unreliable, whimsical, zippy*, agitable, alarmable, volative
Antonyms: calm, collected, laid-back, easy-going, unworried
Main Entry: superficial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without depth, detail
Synonyms: apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-baked*, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep*, slapdash*, slight, summary, surface, trivial, uncritical, depthless, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, quick-fix, smattery, tip of the iceberg, warped
Antonyms: analytical, careful, deep, detailed, genuine, thorough
Main Entry: trifling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: insignificant, worthless
Synonyms: banal, dinky*, empty, frivolous, hollow, idle, idling, inane, inconsequential, insipid, jejune, measly, minuscule, negligible, niggling*, nugatory, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, puny, shallow, silly, slight, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant, vain, valueless, vapid, forget it, inconsiderable, loitering, no big deal, no big thing
Antonyms: important, significant, useful, worthwhile
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