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Trivial

//ˈtɹɪv.i.əl// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Ignorable; of little significance or value.

    ""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.""

  2. 2
    Commonplace, ordinary.

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

  3. 3
    Concerned with or involving trivia.
  4. 4
    Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  5. 5
    Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
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  1. 6
    Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.; Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
  2. 7
    Self-evident.
  3. 8
    Pertaining to the trivium.
  4. 9
    Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (informal) small and of little importance wordnet
  2. 2
    concerned with trivialities wordnet
  3. 3
    of little substance or significance wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. obsolete

    "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"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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