Definition of Frivolous

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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

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

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

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

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.
Mike Krzyzewski

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
Donatella Versace

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
Catherine Deneuve

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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