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trivial

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adjectivenoun
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As an adjective, trivial means ignorable.

Meanings of trivial

10 meanings

adjective

  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.

  2. Commonplace, ordinary.

  3. Concerned with or involving trivia.

  4. taxonomyRelating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.

  5. mathematicsOf, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

  6. mathematicsSelf-evident.

  7. Pertaining to the trivium.

  8. philosophyIndistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

  9. (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”

    Similar: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling

noun

  1. obsoleteAny of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

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adjective: (informal) small and of little importance
fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpetty
adjective: of little substance or significance
superficial

Words that rhyme with trivial

convivial

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