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Definition of Trivial

1. Adjective. (informal) small and of little importance. "Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

2. Adjective. Of little substance or significance. "Only trivial objections"

3. Adjective. Concerned with trivialities. "A trivial mind"

Definition of Trivial

1. a. Found anywhere; common.

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

Definition of Trivial

1. Adjective. Of little significance or value. ¹

2. Adjective. Common, ordinary. ¹

3. Adjective. Concerned with or involving trivia. ¹

4. Adjective. (biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic. ¹

5. Adjective. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. ¹

6. Adjective. (mathematics) Self-evident. ¹

7. Adjective. Pertaining to the trivium. ¹

8. Adjective. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trivial

1. insignificant [adj] - See also: insignificant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trivial

triunities triunity trivalence trivalent trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine trivalently trivalve trivalves trivalvular trivariate

triverbal triverbial trivet trivets trivia trivial (current term) trivial absolute value trivial functional dependency trivial name trivial names

trivialise trivialised trivialises trivialising trivialism trivialisms trivialist trivialists trivialities triviality

Literary usage of Trivial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"4. inferior, ordinary, trivial (rare or archaic), vulgar; spec, popular, low, base, unrefined, commonplace, illiterate; see PLEBEIAN, COARSE. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It has repeatedly happened that large stations have been put out of action by apparently trivial accidents occurring at an unexpected and unprotected point. ..."

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