frivolous
/ˈfrɪv·ə·ləs/ adjDefinition
› (of people) behaving in a silly and foolish way, or (of activities or objects) silly or unimportant: I’m very frivolous – I just like to have fun. With our justice system there are a lot of frivolous cases that go to court. frivolously /ˈfrɪv·ə·lə·sli/ adv › We don’t have a monthly budget, but we don’t spend frivolously either.
(Definition of frivolous adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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