petty adj

1 inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern, subordinate]

2 (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial]

3 contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: small-minded] [also: pettiest, pettier]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛti

Adjective

1. Little, trifling, or inconsiderable, as a petty fault.

Translations

Petty can refer to one of the following

People

• Adam Petty NASCAR driver; son of Kyle Petty
• Bruce Petty
• Lord Charles Petty-FitzMaurice
• Charles Petty-FitzMaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Charles Petty-FitzMaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Chris Petty, Youth Minister at the Central Avenue Church of Christ in Valdosta, GA
• Dini Petty
• Edmond Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice
• George Petty, early pin-up artist
• George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, British politician
• Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, British politician and Irish peer
• Kathleen Petty
• Kyle Petty, NASCAR driver; son of Richard Petty
• Lee Petty, stock car driver, one of the pioneers of NASCAR
• Lori Petty
• Maud Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
• W. Morgan Petty. fictional writer
• Norman Petty
• Richard Petty, NASCAR driver; son of Lee Petty
• Tom Petty, American musician
• Sir William Petty, British economist and inventor
• William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister and Irish peer

Other

• Petty Officer
• Petty, Inverness

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