About The Word Trivial
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Trivial
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What's The Definition Of Trivial?
[adj] not large enough to consider or notice
[adj] (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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" [adj] obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" [adj] concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind" [adj] of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" Synonyms | Synonyms for Trivial: banal | commonplace | fiddling | footling | frivolous | inconsiderable | insignificant | lilliputian | little | Mickey Mouse | niggling | ordinary | petty | picayune | piddling | piffling | superficial | unimportant Related Terms | Find terms related to Trivial: See Also | Trivial In Webster's Dictionary \Triv"i*al\, a. [L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or
belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may
be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three
roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see {Tri-})
+ via a way: cf. F. trivial. See {Voyage}.]
1. Found anywhere; common. [Obs.]
2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and
incapable of labor. --De Quincey.
3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling;
petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
The trivial round, the common task. --Keble.
4. Of or pertaining to the trivium.
{Trivial name} (Nat. Hist.), the specific name.
\Triv"i*al\, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] --Skelton. Wood. |
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