All 5 Uses of
frivolous
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- They were a frivolous couple, with no other worries except going to bed every night, even on forbidden days, and frolicking there until dawn.†
Chpt 10frivolous = not serious
- When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her.†
Chpt 10 *frivolity = lack of seriousness
- Her frivolous and even slightly infantile character did not seem up to any serious activity, but when she sat down at the clavichord she became a different girl, one whose unforeseen maturity gave her the air of an adult.†
Chpt 14frivolous = not serious
- But she not only rejected the idea, she reproached herself for the frivolity of her thought.†
Chpt 14frivolity = lack of seriousness
- He did not notice it because at that moment he was discovering the first indications of his own being in a lascivious grandfather who let himself be frivolously dragged along across a hallucinated plateau in search of a beautiful woman who would not make him happy.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
not serious
- in behavior or attitude -- as when acting silly or without appropriate seriousness
- in content -- as when describing something as trivial or unimportant