niggle
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
worry unnecessarily or excessively
don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
argue over petty things
Let's not quibble over pennies
Types & categories
- contend hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fret |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fuss |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | worry |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scruple |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dither |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | spat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | carper |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | quibbler |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | contend |