apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
Lake
MINOR
limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
not of legal age; "minor children"
of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
warranting only temporal punishm
NICKELANDDIME
PICAYUNE
(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"
SMALL
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
(of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
on a small scale; "think small"
slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"
a garment size for a small person
(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
the slender part of the back
have fine or very small constituent pa
TRIFLING
waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
act frivolously
TRIVIAL
(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"
concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"