Adjective: frivolous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more frivolous |
| Superlative | most frivolous |
Sample Sentences
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trifling ((literary)
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There is no easy definition for the phrase 'frivolous lawsuit,' but I imagine any claim for damages where the injuries are minimal or where the basis for the defendant's liability is hard to believe, might qualify as frivolous. [1996 August 31, Paul F. Waldner, President-Elect, Houston Trial Lawyers Association, “Viewpoints”, in Houston Chronicle, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2005:]
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One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits. [2005, Factcheck.org]
Adjectives inflected like frivolous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin frīvolus (“silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless”), with the ending modified to match -ous. See: Latin Adjectives '
frīvolus'.