frivolity meaning
MeaningMobile
- Noun: frivolity fri'vólitee
- The trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible
- frivolousness - Something of little value or significance
- bagatelle, fluff, frippery - Acting like a clown or buffoon
- buffoonery, clowning, japery, harlequinade, prank
Derived forms: frivolities
See also: frivolous
Type of: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, small beer, tomfoolery, trait, trifle, trivia, triviality
Antonym: seriousness
- The trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible
Examples
- I can not waste time on such frivolities.
- Hedonism and frivolity will diffuse hell through all our days.
- I was astonished by this, imagining that the amahagger were much too gloomy a folk to indulge in any such frivolity.
- She resembled miss hancock attempting by archness and by an assumption of frivolity to persuade her neighbours that she was juvenile.
- She obtained pleasure by contrasting different writers, getting emotions out of the gravity of one and the frivolity of the next.
- Enough frivolity . let's get down to business
- On the upper right, partridges symbolise frivolity
- I can't waste time on such frivolities
- I can't waste time on such frivolities
- How could she tolerate the men's frivolity
Other Languages
- "frivolity" meaning in Chinese: n. 1.轻佻,轻浮。2.轻薄的话[举动]。
- "frivolity" meaning in Japanese: frivolity佻ちょう浮華ふか移り気うつりぎ
- "frivolity" meaning in Russian: 1) легкомыслие; легкомысленный поступок Ex: a life of endl...
- "frivolity" meaning in French: n. frivolité, légèreté, bêtise
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