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quisquilian

quisquilian adjective: without value or importance, insignificant.

Adjective

quisquilian (comparative more quisquilian, superlative most quisquilian)

  1. (rare) Without value or importance, insignificant.
    • What Miscreant quisquilian Scraps and Fragments have the Arians, Papists and Socinians to oppose to all those deliberate and concordant Testimonies?1716, Myles Davies, “Of the other Writers most inclinable to the Reformation of England, under Queen Mary: With continuance of Mr. Pollet's Latin Dissertation against the Arians, Socinians and...

Forms of quisquilian

comparativemore quisquilian
superlativemost quisquilian

Questions about quisquilian

What does quisquilian mean?
Quisquilian means without value or importance, insignificant.
What part of speech is quisquilian?
Quisquilian is an adjective.

Words near quisquilian in the dictionary

  1. quisqouse
  2. quisqualate
  3. quisqualates
  4. quisqualic acid
  5. quisqueite
  6. quisquilian
  7. quisquilious
  8. quisquis
  9. quisquose
  10. quisquous
  11. quisse

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