Pissant

Quick meaning: Pissant is a noun meaning (sometimes vulgar) Insignificant or unimportant.

Meaning

(sometimes vulgar) Insignificant or unimportant.

More Meanings

1. (dated outside dialects) An ant.
2. (slang, derogatory) An insignificant person.
3. (slang, derogatory) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
4. (slang, derogatory) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.

Example Sentences

‘He was just this little pissant kid, Wallace.’

Their manager is a real pissant about break times.

It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.

This is our chance to make a name for ourselves; to show that we're not just some piss-ant white-bread mountain town.

Word Forms

• pissants
• piss-ant

Synonyms for pissant

Depending on context, synonyms include nobody, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, futile.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stinky, stink, stank, piss ant, pisspot, pissoff.

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