Word Meanings - INCONCERNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unimportant; trifling. "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller.
Related words: (words related to INCONCERNING)
- TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - INCONCERNING
Unimportant; trifling. "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller. - TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. - TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n. - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland. - TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne. - FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed