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Definition of Frivolous
	Frivolous Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. Related Definitions: Argument, As, Especially, Frivolous, Given, Importance, In, Interested, Levity, Little, Marked, Not, Notice, Of, Or, Silly, Slight, To, Trifling, Unbecoming, Weight, With, Worth

Frivolous Quotations Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. Blaise Pascal When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Albert Schweitzer I think some cases should be dismissed as being non meritorious or frivolous. Judge M. Lane Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen

Frivolous Translations frivolous in Dutch is lichtzinnig, frivool, wuft frivolous in French is frivole, vaniteux frivolous in German is leichtsinnig, leichtfertig, frivol frivolous in Italian is frivolo, leggiero

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