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# frivolous

«frivolous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Silly and not serious; caring more about fun or trifles…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Silly and not serious; caring more about fun or trifles than about what matters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frivolous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a person or a remark that is light and not sensible

### examples

- He is a frivolous young fellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frivolous/#x1)
- Don't be so frivolous when we have work to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frivolous/#x2)
- A frivolous joke at a sad time is unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frivolous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frivolous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frivolous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.