Picayune (Amtrak station)
WordNet
adjective
(1) (informal) small and of little importance
"A fiddling sum of money"
"A footling gesture"
"Our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"
"A little (or small) matter"
"A dispute over niggling details"
"Limited to petty enterprises"
"Piffling efforts"
"Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance; picayunish;
- 2005, New York Times, November 17, 2005
- "It might seem like a picayune matter, akin to the rivalry in the film "Monty Python's Life of Brian" between the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front and the People's Front of Judea."
- 2005, New York Times, November 17, 2005
- something not worth arguing about.
- an argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue at hand or does not change a primary supposition, outcome, postulate, premise, conclusion, hypothesis, judgment or recommendation;
- small-minded: being childishly spiteful, tending to go on about unimportant things.
Noun
- A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. A 5-cent or 6-cent piece.