trivial
Meanings
Plural: trivials
Adjective Satellite
- (informal) small and of little importance
- of little substance or significance
- "only trivial objections"
- concerned with trivialities
- "a trivial young woman"
- "a trivial mind"
Adj
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- Self-evident.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Noun
- Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*tréyes
* From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
* From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
Synonyms
fiddling, footling, ignorable, lilliputian, little, negligible, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, superficial, trifling
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
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