Frivolous
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

GAY
Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex

4 letters

FAST
Abstaining from food

VAIN
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

FLIP
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"

IDLE
Not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"

AIRY
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"

5 letters

SILLY
Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett

LIGHT
A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?"

DIZZY
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

GIDDY
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

BARMY
Marked by spirited enjoyment

MINOR
A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

PETTY
Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

INANE
Devoid of intelligence

FUNNY
An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

SMALL
The slender part of the back

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

HAPPY
Well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"

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STUPID
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"

CHANCE
A risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"

MADCAP
A reckless impetuous irresponsible person

YEASTY
Marked by spirited enjoyment

PALTRY
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

FROTHY
Marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"

ABSURD
Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

WASTED
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"

FICKLE
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

FLIMSY
Not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

WANTON
Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"

FUTILE
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

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NERVOUS
Easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"

FLIGHTY
Guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls"

TRIVIAL
(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

IDIOTIC
Insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"

AIMLESS
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

KIDDING

PLAYFUL
Full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"

FRIBBLE

PUERILE
Of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"

FOOLISH
Devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision"

SHALLOW
A stretch of shallow water

8 letters

SKITTISH
Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

WASTEFUL
Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"

NIGGLING
(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

FLIPPANT
Showing inappropriate levity

SPORTIVE
Relating to or interested in sports

TRIFLING
The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

CHILDISH
Indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

DELICATE
Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"

GOALLESS
Having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"

VOLATILE
Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"

JUVENILE
Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

IMMATURE
Not yet mature

CARELESS
Effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"

9 letters

AIRYFAIRY

DWINDLING
A becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family"

ARBITRARY
Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves"

WHIMSICAL
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

FRUITLESS
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

EXPLOSIVE
A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck

POINTLESS
Not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless"

SPENDABLE
(used of funds) remaining after taxes; "spendable income"

SENSELESS
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

IMPULSIVE
Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

FACETIOUS
Cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"

10 letters

UNPROFOUND

NONSERIOUS

IRREVERENT
Not revering god

DISSIPATED
Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"

SQUANDERED
Not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

PERIPHERAL
Related to the key issue but not of central importance; "a peripheral interest"; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"; "peripheral issues"

NOTSERIOUS

UNTHINKING
Mentally sluggish

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PROMISCUOUS
Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"

INEFFECTIVE
Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers"

LIGHTHEADED
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"

HAREBRAINED
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

EMPTYHEADED

SUPERFICIAL
Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"

IMPRACTICAL
Not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"

UNIMPORTANT
Not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

LIGHTMINDED

VACILLATING
Uncertain in purpose or action

12 letters

UNCONVINCING
Not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

13 letters

ILLCONSIDERED

UNINTELLIGENT
Lacking intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers"

IRRESPONSIBLE
Showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"

TONGUEINCHEEK

INSIGNIFICANT
Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"

14 letters

FEATHERBRAINED
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"

SCATTERBRAINED
Lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott