🪙 Worthless 🌾 Like dry husks

chaffy

1 9.2

Having little value or importance

adjective
/ˈtʃæfi/

: insignificante

Critics agreed the novel's plot was chaffy and lacked real substance.

Examples

The market was full of chaffy trinkets that no one really wanted to buy.
His excuses were chaffy and unconvincing.
His ideas were dismissed as chaffy nonsense by the rest of the group.
That old book is just chaffy nonsense.
Many of the items at the flea market were chaffy and overpriced, lacking any real value.
The presentation was filled with chaffy information that only confused the audience.
Her comments during the meeting were chaffy and did not contribute to the discussion.

Synonyms

not worth a whistle

vschaffy

Informal

9.1

A thing that has no value or use

is similar but means completely worthless rather than slightly valuable

tuppenny-ha'penny

vschaffy

Archaic

9.9

Very low in value and not important

is stronger meaning completely without value rather than just trivial

Antonyms

important

∞ 1.0

A person or thing that matters a lot

valuable

700 2.5

Very useful and important, for example advice or skills

How Important

vital

405 3.5

important

∞ 1.0

minor

497 2.4

chaffy

1 9.2

Surface Forms

chaffy positive

Morphology

chaffy = chaff (semi-transparent) = chaff + y

Formed from 'chaff' + '-y', but the adjectival sense 'worthless' depends on a metaphorical extension of 'chaff' as 'worthless material', which may not be immediately obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Chaffy comes from chaff, the light 'husks' people throw away when they clean grain, and because chaff is the unimportant part, chaffy means 'of little value' or 'worthless'.