TRIFLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trifler mean? 

• TRIFLER (noun)
  The noun TRIFLER has 1 sense:

1. one who behaves lightly or not seriously

  Familiarity information: TRIFLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIFLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who behaves lightly or not seriously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("trifler" is a kind of...):

bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer (person who does no work)

Derivation:

trifle (act frivolously)

 Context examples 

I have had my pen in my hand to begin a letter to you almost every day since you left Bath, but have always been prevented by some silly trifler or other.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)