🇬🇧🇨🇳 frivolous - 轻浮 : English Lesson

Meaning of "frivolous" ("轻浮"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

If something is frivolous, it is silly, playful, or not really important—like arguing over who has the shinier shoelaces instead of doing your homework. It can be fun, but it doesn’t truly matter or help with serious things.

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Mom said my plan to train a potato to do my homework was a completely frivolous use of vegetables.

Instead of cleaning my room, I spent an hour in frivolous research to discover which dinosaur had the best hairstyle.

Grandma said my idea to replace all the chairs with bouncy trampolines was delightfully frivolous but totally unsafe.

We had a frivolous argument over whether a taco or a waffle would make a better hat for a penguin.

The king in my story passed a frivolous law that everyone had to high-five a squirrel every Tuesday.

At the bus stop a man fretted over a frivolous feather in his hat while rain soaked his bag. A child pointed, calling the feather frivolous; an old woman laughed, calling the fuss frivolous. The man, clutching the feather and his once-frivolous hat, finally let the frivolous thing blow away and smiled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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