| 单词 | picayune |
| 释义 | picayune (once / 21727 pages) adj The adjective picayune refers to those things that are so small, trivial, and unimportant that they're not worth getting into. Why focus on the picayune details, when it's the larger ideas that are the real problem? There are several newspapers in America called the Picayune, because they see it as their job to comb through even the minor details of the story to get to the truth. Hear the word "picky" in picayune (though they're not related)? That's one way to remember it. A picky person is picayune. Airline disaster investigators spend their lives rummaging through the debris, knowing that it might be the most picayune detail that leads them to understand the cause of a crash. WORD FAMILYpicayune USAGE EXAMPLESThe Picayune Item on an ongoing burn ban throughout much of the state: Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) About a year ago, a man was fatally shot on Bourbon Street not far from the site of Sunday’s shooting, the Times Picayune reported. Washington Post(Nov 27, 2016) The picayune typo could have led some to interpret the communique as a U.S. policy reversal on some territory where sovereignty was disputed. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) adj (informal) small and of little importance 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, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial unimportant not important |
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