1. (

• junior-grade ,
• lower-ranking ,
• lowly ,
• petty ,
• secondary ,
• subaltern

) inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" ;

2. (

• fiddling ,
• footling ,
• lilliputian ,
• little ,
• niggling ,
• piddling ,
• piffling ,
• petty ,
• picayune ,
• trivial

) (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" ;

3. (

• petty ,
• small-minded

) contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" ;