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niggling
Overview of verb niggle
The verb niggle has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. fuss, niggle, fret -- (worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now")
2. quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble -- (argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies")
Overview of adj niggling
The adj niggling has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, 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")
Antonyms of verb niggle
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb niggle
2 senses of niggle
Sense 1
fuss, niggle, fret
=> worry
Sense 2
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
=> argue, contend, debate, fence
=> converse, discourse
=> talk, speak
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb niggle
1 of 2 senses of niggle
Sense 1
fuss, niggle, fret
=> scruple
=> dither, flap, pother
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb niggle
2 senses of niggle
Sense 1
fuss, niggle, fret
=> worry
Sense 2
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
=> argue, contend, debate, fence
'Cause To' of verb niggle
Derived Forms of verb niggle
1 of 2 senses of niggle
Sense 2
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
RELATED TO>(noun) niggler#1
=> carper, niggler
Domain of verb niggle
Domain Terms of verb niggle
Familiarity of verb niggle
niggle used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb niggle
2 senses of niggle
Sense 1
fuss, niggle, fret
EX: Sam and Sue niggle over the results of the experiment
Sense 2
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb niggle
2 senses of niggle
Sense 1
fuss, niggle, fret
> worry
=> fret
=> fear
=> fuss, niggle, fret
=> obsess
Sense 2
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
> argue, contend, debate, fence
=> stickle
=> spar
=> quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
=> quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate
=> oppose
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb niggle
Sense 1
fuss, niggle, fret
=> worry
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Sense 2
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
=> argue, contend, debate, fence
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Grep of verb niggle
niggle
Antonyms of adj niggling
1 sense of niggling
Sense 1
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
INDIRECT (VIA unimportant) -> important, of import
Similarity of adj niggling
1 sense of niggling
Sense 1
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
=> unimportant (vs. important)
Pertainyms of adj niggling
Attributes of adj niggling
Domain of adj niggling
1 sense of niggling
Sense 1
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
USAGE>(noun) colloquialism#1
Domain Terms of adj niggling
Familiarity of adj niggling
niggling used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj niggling
niggling
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