fiddling

Speech parts

1. fiddling - Noun

2. fiddling - Adjective

3. fiddling - Verb

5. fiddling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Fiddle

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

little lilliputian trivial petty picayune piddling niggling footling piffling fiddler diddle twiddle small play least
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Antonyms

arch cardinal central titanic major important
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Phrases with the word

fiddling while rome burns fiddling roman tyrant

Examples

You've been competing against the past, and that's a contest no one can win because the past has all the advantages. We've forgotten all its fiddling little drawbacks: the lice, the skin infections, the disgusting personal habits and the rest of it. John Brunner

Lepidopt didn't know if he was one of those pipe smokers who always had the thing in his mouth and talked around the stem, or one of the ones who was always fiddling with it in his hands, tamping it and relighting it and shoving a pipe cleaner down it; they were different sorts of men. Tim Powers

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies. Hollis Stacy

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers. John Connolly

Not only was I fiddling around at the keyboard but there were all these other children of all backgrounds wanting to play every sort of music bits of classical, jazz, pop, improvisation. Joanna MacGregor

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson

Close letter words and terms

fiddlewood fiddley fiddliness fiddling roman tyrant fiddling while rome burns fiddlist