2.JOKING/NOT SERIOUSa frivolous person likes having fun rather than doing serious or sensible things – used to show disapproval 〔人〕轻浮的〔含贬义〕OPP serious
—frivolouslyadverbadv
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frivolous• Our stuff may be any combination of old and new, used or unused, practical, sentimental or frivolous.• Perhaps the characters are arbitrary and the ancestral female's choice was frivolous.• To be thinking about partying was downright frivolous!• Would some parents choose schools with the fanciestathleticfacilities or the most frivolous courses and wastetaxpayers' money?• Work time is too valuable to waste on frivolous games.• It could hardly be said that Mrs. Bush had led a frivolous or unproductive life.• She seemed to have a properregard for the frivolous things in life.• But amassingwealth did not turn Maria into a frivolous woman; she started the family vocation of caregiving.