| Main Entry: | niggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nitpick |
Synonyms: |
argue, carp, cavil, complain, find fault, fuss, grouse, grumble, moan, nag, object |
| Main Entry: | niggling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trifling |
Synonyms: |
frivolous, inconsequential, petty, piddling, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | niggling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant |
Synonyms: |
finicky, fussy, petty, picayune, trifling |
| Main Entry: | carping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complaining |
Synonyms: |
bellyaching, caviling, censorious, critical, criticizing, deprecatory, disparaging, fault-finding, griping, grouchy, grousing, grumbling, hypercritical, kvetching, moaning, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, quibbling, scathing, whining |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, forgiving |
| Main Entry: | critical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fault-finding, detracting |
Synonyms: |
analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | fault-finding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
Synonyms: |
captious, carping, fussy, hairsplitting, hard to please, hypercritical, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, pettifogging, quibbling |
| 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, ill-considered, impractical, juvenile, light, light-minded, minor, niggling, nonserious, not serious, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful, pointless, puerile, scatterbrained, senseless, shallow, sportive, superficial, tongue-in-cheek, unimportant, unprofound, volatile, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
grave, mature, sensible, serious, solemn, thoughtful, wise |
| Main Entry: | hypercritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captious |
Synonyms: |
carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, hard to please, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, persnickety |
| Main Entry: | least |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slightest, smallest |
Synonyms: |
atomic, bottom, entry-level, feeblest, fewest, finical, first, gutter, infinitesimal, last, lowest, meanest, microcosmic, microscopic, minimal, minimum, minute, minutest, molecular, most trivial, nadir, next to nothing, niggling, piddling, poorest, second, short-end, third, tiniest, trivial, unimportant |
| Notes: | leased means to use or allow someone else to use something for an agreed period of time in exchange for a payment; least is lowest in importance, rank, magnitude, or degree |
Antonyms: |
most |
| Main Entry: | measly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skimpy |
Synonyms: |
beggarly, contemptible, insignificant, meager, mean, miserable, miserly, niggling, paltry, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling, pitiful, poor, puny, scanty, stingy, trifling, trivial, ungenerous, unimportant, valueless, worthless |
Antonyms: |
abundant, plenty, proficient, satisfactory, sufficient |