mere; slight, slender, narrow, puny, very little; insufficient, inadequate, short, shy; insubstantial, nominal, minute, negligible.
niggle, v. 1. trifle, Inf frivol, Inf. fiddle-faddle, fribble, putter, Brit, potter, poke, fritter one's time away, diddle, piddle, dawdle, finick, idle, fool around.
2. criticize, gripe, complain, cavil, carp, Yiddish. kvetch, nag; object, find fault, poke holes in; mutter in one's beard, whine, SI. grouse, fret,
niggling, adj. 1. petty, minor, picayune, trivial, puny; inconsequential, unimportant, insignificant, nugatory, worthless, useless; piddling, trifling, fiddling, frivolous, fribble; inane, silly, foolish, pointless, Inf. dumb, idiotic.
2. fussy, overelaborate, intricate, complicated, convoluted; detailed, labored, ornate.
nigh, adv. 1. near, close; presently, soon, anon; nearly, almost, about, approximately, closely, roughly, generally; in general, thereabouts, somewhere about.
-adj. 2. near, nearby, approaching, at hand; close, close by, close-at-hand, convenient, in the neighborhood; proximate, forthcoming, imminent, momentary, impending, looming.
3. short, direct, straight, quick. -prep. 4. close to, near, alongside of. See - near (defs. 8, 9).
night, n. 1. nighttime, Poetic, nighttide; midnight, wee hours, dead of night; time to prowl, witching time, the time when the worms come out, killing time, the other side of the day; bedtime, slumber time.
2. evening, twilight, dying of the light, sunset. See - nightfall.
3. darkness, dark, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian gloom; tenebrousness, gloom, shades or curtains of night.
4. night and day unceasingly, ceaselessly, incessantly, around the clock; continually, continuously, endlessly, nonstop; tirelessly, untiringly, indefatigably.
night clothes, n. bed garments, sleeping clothes, nightgown, Inf nightie, nightdress, nightrobe, Fr. robe de nuit; pajamas, SI. p.j.'s, nightshirt; bunting, sleeper, Dr. Denton, Inf footsie pajamas; nightcap,
nightclub, n. cabaret, Inf. nightspot. Inf. nitery, Inf. nightery; roadhouse, dance hall, discotheque, Inf. disco; supper club, club, cafe; All Inf hot spot, watering hole, watering place; Inf pub, bar, singles bar.
nightfall, n. sunset, sundown, day's end, moonrise, edge of night, beginning of night, Inf. shank of the night, night; dusk, twilight, crepuscule, Literary. gloaming; late afternoon, evening, Archaic, vespers, eventide, evenfall, eve, Archaic, even, Archaic, evensong.
nightingale, n. Poetic, philomel, thrush, wood thrush; singing bird, singer, songbird, songster, warbler.
nightly, adj. 1. nocturnal, night-time, noctivagant, noctivagous; night-clad, night-cloaked, night-enshrouded, night-hid.
2. recurrent, repetitious, incessant, never-failing, happening every night, performed every night. -adv. 3. nocturnally, by night, at night, in the night, nights; through the night, in the dark, in dark of night, nights only.
nightmare, n. 1. bad dream, horrid dream; phantasmagoria.
2. horrible experience, trial, tribulation, SI. bad trip, ordeal, trial by fire, duress; torture, immense suffering, mental suffering.