Sekirov Dictionary

trivial

/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/

adjective 10
noun 1
forms 3

adjective10

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of so little importance or value that it is not worth any attention
- "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." — 1847
so easy that it takes almost no skill or work to do
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
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too ordinary to be interesting
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour. — 1842
so clearly true that it needs no proof
naming the species within its genus as the second word of a scientific name in biology, like "sapiens" in "Homo sapiens"
connected with the study of grammar, logic and rhetoric, the three basic subjects taught first in schools of the Middle Ages
Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

noun1

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(no longer used) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
- 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 — 1521

forms

trivials · more trivial · most trivial

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