'Trivial' definitions:
Definition of 'trivial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
adjective
Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [syn: superficial, trivial]
adjective
Concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
Definition of 'Trivial'
From: GCIDE
- Trivial \Triv"i*al\, a. [L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see Tri-) + via a way: cf. F. trivial. See Voyage.]
- 1. Found anywhere; common. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. [1913 Webster]
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. [1913 Webster]
- The trivial round, the common task. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. [1913 Webster]
- Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), the specific name. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trivial'
From: GCIDE
- Trivial \Triv"i*al\, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] --Skelton. Wood. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trivial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- ankle-deep,
- asinine,
- base,
- bickering,
- captious,
- casual,
- catchpenny,
- caviling,
- cheap,
- choplogic,
- cursory,
- deficient,
- depthless,
- empty,
- epidermal,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- fatuous,
- few,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- footling,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- idle,
- imperfect,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incompetent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insignificant,
- insufficient,
- jejune,
- junk,
- junky,
- knee-deep,
- light,
- little,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- maladroit,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- mediocre,
- Mickey,
- miniature,
- minor,
- negligible,
- NG,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- not comparable,
- not deep,
- not in it,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- on the surface,
- otiose,
- out of it,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- shallow-rooted,
- shoal,
- shoddy,
- shoestring,
- short,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- small-beer,
- superficial,
- surface,
- thin,
- tiny,
- trashy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifling,
- trite,
- unimportant,
- unprofound,
- unskillful,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- windy,
- worthless