Petty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having little or no importance.

   “a petty fault    petty squabbles”

2. sıfat Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.

   “Such literature may well be anathema to those who are too docile and petty for their own good.”

3. sıfat Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.

   “My cousin is so petty—I forgot his birthday and he's been making snarky comments all week.”

4. sıfat Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.

   “This finishes their education in the under school, in which they have now been three years and a half, and they are next moved into the upper, and probably at the age of ten or eleven; six or seven being the age at which boys are generally sent into the petty form.”

5. sıfat Little or small in size.

   “To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, / Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, / To the laſt Syllable of Recorded time: / And all our yeſterdayes, haue lighted Fooles / The way to duſty death.”

6. sıfat Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.

   “petty cash    petty officer”

7. isim An outbuilding used as a lavatory; an outhouse, a privy.

   “If these houses had been built by his Lordship every one would have had his petty, at all events dividing the odour & also having a chance that some of the occupiers would clean out—but a common occupation is nobody's business, unless the owner of all the buildings takes it in hand.”

8. isim A class or school for young schoolboys.
9. isim A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
10. özel isim A surname.