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trinkety

trinkety adjective: resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.

Adjective

trinkety (comparative more trinkety, superlative most trinkety)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.
    • Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times

Synonyms of trinkety

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Forms of trinkety

comparativemore trinkety
superlativemost trinkety

Origin of trinkety

From trinket + -y.

Questions about trinkety

What does trinkety mean?
Trinkety means resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.
What part of speech is trinkety?
Trinkety is an adjective.

Words near trinkety in the dictionary

  1. trinketizing
  2. trinketlike
  3. trinketries
  4. trinketry
  5. trinkets
  6. trinkety
  7. trinkilo
  8. trinkilos
  9. trinkle
  10. trinkled
  11. trinklement

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