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bagatela — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bagatelle noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
  • trifle noun A British dessert layered with sponge cake, custard, fruit, jelly, and whipped cream.
  • triviality noun The quality of being trivial or unimportant.

Senses

bagatela is used for these senses in English:

  • trifle (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
  • triviality Something which is trivial or unimportant.

bagatelle — full definition

  1. noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
  2. noun A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
  3. noun A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
  4. noun Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.

trifle — full definition

  1. noun A British dessert layered with sponge cake, custard, fruit, jelly, and whipped cream.
  2. noun Something of little importance or value.
  3. verb To treat something, or someone, without proper seriousness.

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