Trivial

/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ · adjective

Meaning

Ignorable; of little significance or value..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

"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."

In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

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

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

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

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• more trivial
• most trivial
• triviall
• trivials

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