1. Small and of little importance
   "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction";
   - fiddling [informal], footling [informal], lilliputian [informal], little [informal], niggling [informal], piddling [informal], piffling [informal], petty [informal], trivial [informal], niggly [informal], piddly [informal]

1. [N. Amer, informal] Something of small importance
   "He didn't want to bother his boss with such picayune details";
   - triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer [informal], piddler [informal], small fry [informal]
    
2. An insignificant person
   - pissant [N. Amer]

Derived forms: picayunes

See also: unimportant

Type of: article, object, physical object

Encyclopedia: Picayune, MS μSA