Definition of petty Petty
/pɛˈti/ - [petee] - Pet•ty
We found 9 definitions of petty from 5 different sources.
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What does petty mean?
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Adjectivepetty, pettier, pettiest |
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| petty - contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" | ||
| small-minded | ||
| narrow-minded, narrow lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions" | ||
| petty - (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" | ||
| fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial | ||
| unimportant not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant" | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
| petty - inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" | ||
| junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, secondary, subaltern | ||
| junior used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- petty (Adjective)
Little, small, secondary in rank or importance. - petty (Adjective)
Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable. - petty (Adjective)
Narrow-minded, small-minded.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- petty (superl.)
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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petty
pet′i, adj. small: of less importance: lower in rank, power, &c.: inconsiderable, insignificant: contemptible.—adv. Pett′ily.—n. Pett′iness.—Petty cash, small sums of money received or paid; Petty larceny (see Larceny); Petty officer, a naval officer with rank corresponding to a non-commissioned officer in the army. [O. Fr. petit.]
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