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  1. not important and not worth giving attention to: Prisoners complain that they are subjected to too many petty rules and restrictions. [ after noun ] complaining too much about things that are not important: Don't be so petty!

  2. The meaning of PETTY is having secondary rank or importance : minor, subordinate. How to use petty in a sentence.

  3. petty, paltry, trifling, trivial apply to something that is so insignificant as to be almost unworthy of notice. petty implies contemptible insignificance and littleness, inferiority and small worth: petty quarrels. paltry is applied to something that is beneath one’s notice, even despicable: a paltry amount.

  4. Petty definition: of little or no importance or consequence. See examples of PETTY used in a sentence.

  5. Definitions of petty. adjective. (informal) small and of little importance. “limited to petty enterprises” synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial. unimportant. not important. adjective. inferior in rank or status. “ petty officialdom”

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