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Definition of 'trivial'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Ignorable; of little significance or value.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones , who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial , twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
Commonplace, ordinary.
* De Quincey
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
(biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
(mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
(mathematics) Self-evident.
Pertaining to the trivium.
(philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Synonyms
* (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, trifling
Antonyms
* nontrivial
* important
* significant
* radical
* fundamental
Derived terms
* trivia
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
- (Skelton)
- (Wood)
( Webster 1913)
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