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Definition of A trifle
1. Adverb. To a small degree; somewhat. "A trifle smaller"
Definition of A trifle
1. Adverb. A little. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of A Trifle
Literary usage of A trifle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"It is however observable that, in our English idioms as above enumerated, “ song “
expresses not simply a trifle, a valueless article, but such an article ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"The miserly official found a stone rising a trifle above sixty crowns, and let
it be heard that it was worth upwards of two hundred. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... original pictures are eclectic in their composition and technique, correct in
design, smooth in execution, but somewhat too sweet, and a trifle insipid. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"In my cases, I am quite certain the incision extended but a trifle more than an
inch below the tubercle, and, as is seen, the cicatrices remain in the ..."
5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... the whole of which the militia captured; it is a trifle, but it is a trifle
that was very prettily done. ..."
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