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frivolous 音标拼音: [fr'ɪvələs]
a. 轻佻的,妄动的,琐碎的 轻佻的,妄动的,琐碎的 frivolous adj 1: not serious in content or attitude or behavior; " a frivolous novel"; " a frivolous remark"; " a frivolous young woman" [ ant: { serious}] Frivolous \ Friv" o* lous\, a. [ L. frivolus; prob. akin to friare to rub, crumble, E. friable: cf. F. frivole.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. [ 1913 Webster] His personal tastes were low and frivolous. -- Macaulay. Syn: Trifling; trivial; slight; petty; worthless. -- { Friv" o* lous* ly}, adv. -- { Friv" o* lous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 146 Moby Thesaurus words for " frivolous": aimless, airy, amorphous, asinine, birdbrained, birdwitted, brainless, buxom, capricious, casual, catchpenny, childish, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, dizzy, empty, empty- headed, erratic, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, fitful, flighty, flimsy, flip, flippant, fluffy, fluttery, foolish, formless, fribble, fribbling, frothy, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy- brained, giddy- headed, giddy- pated, giddy- witted, gleeful, gratuitous, haphazard, harebrain, harebrained, hilarious, hit- or- miss, idle, immethodical, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential, indiscriminate, insignificant, irregular, irresponsible, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter- loving, light, meaningless, merry, minor, mirth- loving, mirthful, misshapen, niggling, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugacious, nugatory, orderless, otiose, paltry, peripheral, petty, planless, playful, promiscuous, puerile, random, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, rejoicing, risible, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, senseless, shallow, shallow- headed, shallow- minded, shallow- pated, shallow- witted, shapeless, shatterbrained, silly, slender, slight, small- time, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, superficial, systemless, thoughtless, trifling, trite, trivial, two- bit, twopenny, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unprofound, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, volatile, wandering, windy, witless, worthless
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