picayune

英 [ˌpɪkə'juːn] 美 [ˌpɪkə'juːn]

• adj. 微小的；心胸狭窄的
• n. 西班牙铜币；五美分铜币；微不足道的事物

英英释义

Adjective:

1. (informal) small and of little importance;

   "a fiddling sum of money"
   "a footling gesture"
   "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"
   "a little (or small) matter"
   "a dispute over niggling details"
   "limited to petty enterprises"
   "piffling efforts"
   "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
   

经典引文

• His life wouldn't be worth a picayune.

  出自： M. G. Eberhart

近反义词

【近义词】

• petty 小的
• trivial 不重要的
• footling 不熟练的
• fiddling 无足轻重的
• little 小的
• niggling 琐碎的
• piddling 无用的
• Lilliputian 极小的
• piffling 琐碎的