PISSANT

Etymology

Noun

pissant (plural pissants)

(dated, outside, dialects) An ant.

(pejorative) An insignificant person.

(pejorative) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.

(pejorative) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.

Adjective

pissant (comparative more pissant, superlative most pissant)

Insignificant or unimportant.

Anagrams

• ptisans, spastin

Source: Wiktionary



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7 January 2025

UNINFORMATIVELY

(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”


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