Meaning of TRIVIAL
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | banal, commonplace, fiddling, footling, frivolous, inconsiderable, insignificant, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, ordinary, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, superficial, unimportant |
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\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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