Trifles

Synonyms

bagatelle trivia froth bauble flummery minutia technicality triviality trinket gewgaw knickknack whatnot fiddle-faddle small beer dingle-dangle

Antonyms

solitaire baguette gemstone nuts and bolts nitty-gritty cabochon

Examples

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. Wallace Stevens

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is bad to contend about trifles. Latin Proverb

Small minds are captivated by trifles. Latin Proverb

He who trifles with his enemy dies by his hand. Spanish Proverb