Smattering vs Trifling - What's the difference?
smattering | trifling |
A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.
A small number or amount of something.
trivial, or of little importance
* 2005 , .
idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
As nouns the difference between smattering and trifling
is that smattering is a superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject while trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.As a verb smattering
is .As an adjective trifling is
trivial, or of little importance.smattering
English
Noun
- She knows a smattering of Greek, but not enough to carry on a conversation.
- There’s only a smattering of people who oppose the second amendment.
Synonyms
* (small amount) see also .Verb
(head)Anagrams
*trifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.