Arabic English Dictionary

العربية - English

تافه in English:

1. trivial trivial


It may seem trivial to you, but for me it's worth paying attention to.
a trivial matter
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
My friends talk about trivial things like celebrities.
Such a trivial thing is out of the question.
What's amazing about sports fans is the intensity of the rage they can feel toward something trivial.
A straight line is a trivial example of a curve.
In fact, this does not seem to be true at all, except in a very trivial sense.
Mundane and fairly trivial activities that they've either always avoided or have never had opportunity to do.
The issue was really very trivial, but Gene was determined to solve it.
Now, you're making an issue of such a trivial matter.
I don't know why he gets so upset about something so trivial.
Your question is trivial but I'll answer it anyway.
Can we leave that for another meeting? Replacing a few chairs is rather trivial compared with the rather larger matter of the new school roof.
When Victoria went to Borneo and worked with apes, the problems in her job at home seemed so trivial.

2. vain


Fashion-conscious people are usually vain and selfish.
in vain
But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.
I think John is quite selfish, and a little bit vain. He isn't easy to get on with.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
His vain efforts to seduce her showed he was barking up the wrong tree; she was a mother of two tots.
Give up, give up your vain pursuit!
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
We have worked hard and I would like to think that our work will not be in vain.
I think you’d have to be really vain to spend ages in a photo booth.
this vainglorious boast of personal infallibility
Dennis is very concerned about his appearance. He spends long hours shopping, trying clothes on and choosing shoes. He visits a beautician regulary and has installed huge mirrors in each room of his house. He's vain.
She was young handsome vain and giddy and completely the slave of fashion.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.