Trivial

Quick meaning: Trivial is an adjective meaning Ignorable; of little significance or value.

Meaning

Ignorable; of little significance or value.

More Meanings

1. Commonplace, ordinary.
2. Concerned with or involving trivia.
3. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
4. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
5. (mathematics) Self-evident.
6. Pertaining to the trivium.
7. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Example Sentences

As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.

St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold

"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."

Word Forms

• triviall
• trivials

Synonyms for trivial

Depending on context, synonyms include ignorable, negligible, trifling, frothy, Lilliputian, superficial.

Antonyms for trivial

Common opposites include important, significant, radical, fundamental.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unimportant, petty, piddling, piffling, footling, inconsiderable.

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