frivolity

  • 11frivolity — noun everyone needs a little frivolity now and again Syn: lightheartedness, levity, joking, jocularity, gaiety, fun, frivolousness, silliness, foolishness, flightiness, skittishness; superficiality, shallowness, flippancy, vacuity, empty… …

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  • 12frivolity — frivolous ► ADJECTIVE 1) not having any serious purpose or value. 2) (of a person) carefree and superficial. DERIVATIVES frivolity noun frivolously adverb frivolousness noun. ORIGIN Latin frivolus silly, trifling …

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  • 13frivolity — noun (plural ties) Date: 1764 1. the quality or state of being frivolous 2. a frivolous act or thing …

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  • 14frivolity — noun a) frivolous act b) state of being frivolous See Also: frivolous …

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  • 15frivolity — Synonyms and related words: amusement, asininity, battiness, big deal, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dallying, desipience, eccentricity, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, flightiness,… …

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  • 16frivolity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. levity, flightiness, giddiness, folly.See unimportance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. flightiness, triviality, silliness, levity, flippancy, lightness, puerility, trifling, folly, frippery, flummery,… …

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  • 17frivolity — fri|vol|i|ty [ frı valəti ] noun uncount silly behavior or attitudes: FRIVOLOUSNESS a. count something that is silly …

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  • 18frivolity — fri·vol·i·ty || frɪ vÉ‘lÉ™tɪ / vÉ’l n. light heartedness, flippancy, foolishness, silliness …

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  • 19frivolity — n. Levity, puerility, trifling, triviality, frivolousness, folly, fribbling, frippery, flummery …

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  • 20frivolity — n light heartedness, gaiety, levity, lightness; foolishness, folly, silliness, fribble, puerility, friv olousness; clownishness, zaniness, buffoonery; triviality, superficiality, shallowness …

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