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To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er (#), Friv"ol*ler, n. [All Colloq.]

Frivolity. [R.] Pristley.

The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.

Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Swift.

To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.

Frivolous or sophistical objection. [Obs.] Hooker.

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. [Scot. & North of Eng.] Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray.

hy cumbereth it the ground Luke xiii. 7. The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. Locke.

er; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the si…

position. Then, seeing't was he that made you to despose, Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. Shak.

To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).

Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.

Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

frivolous; -- of people. serious Syn. -- flighty. [WordNet 1.5]

Frivolous; trifling; sily.

Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.