trivial

[Triv·i*al]

Something that is trivial is not important or significant, such as the trivial details you shared with me about your trip to the post office this morning.

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Found anywhere; common.

Adjective S.
not large enough to consider or notice

Adjective S.
(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 nig

Adjective S.
obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

Adjective S.
concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

Adjective S.
of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"

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a.
Found anywhere; common.

a.
Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

a.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

a.
Of or pertaining to the trivium.

n.
One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Trivial

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.

3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

The trivial round, the common task.

4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), the specific name.

Trivial

Triv"i*al, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] Skelton. Wood.

Found anywhere; common.

One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

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Usage Examples

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

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Other Usage Examples

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.