Definition of trifle

"trifle" in the noun sense

1. trifle

a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate

2. trifle, triviality

a detail that is considered insignificant

3. triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer

something of small importance

"trifle" in the verb sense

1. piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle

waste time spend one's time idly or inefficiently

2. frivol, trifle

act frivolously

3. dally, trifle, play

consider not very seriously

"He is trifling with her"

"She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

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Quotations for trifle

To trifle with sacred things.

A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks. [ Tennyson ]

No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant. [ Young ]

Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease.
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. [ Pope ]

At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [ Plautus ]

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life. [ Edward Young ]

Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle. [ Lavater ]

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. [ Michael Angelo ]

Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. [ Pope ]

What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Tom hinted at his dislike at some trifle his mistress had said; she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage if he talked at this rate before. [ Addison ]

Few of us appreciate the number of our everyday blessings; we think they are trifles, and yet trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle, as Michael Angelo said. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]

trifle in Scrabble®

The word trifle is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters trifle:

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FILTER
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word trifle

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In trifle

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trifle in Words With Friends™

The word trifle is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters trifle:

FILTER
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LIFTER
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Words containing the sequence trifle

Words that start with trifle (5 words)

Words with trifle in them (1 word)

Words that end with trifle (1 word)

Word Growth involving trifle

Shorter words in trifle

if rifle

Longer words containing trifle

trifled

trifler triflers

trifles