trivial

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɹɪ.vi.əl/

Adjective

trivial

1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
   • 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

     "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. Commonplace, ordinary.

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

3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
4. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
5. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
6. (mathematics) Self-evident.
7. Pertaining to the trivium.
8. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Synonyms

• (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, trifling

Antonyms

• nontrivial
• important
• significant
• radical
• fundamental

Translations

• French: trivial, anodin
• Italian: insignificante
• Portuguese: trivial
• Russian: незначи́тельный
• Spanish: trivial

Translations

• French: banal
• Italian: banale, ordinario
• Portuguese: trivial
• Russian: тривиа́льный
• Spanish: trivial

Translations

• French: trivial
• German: trivial
• Portuguese: trivial
• Russian: тривиа́льный

Translations

• French: trivial
• German: trivial
• Portuguese: trivial
• Russian: тривиа́льный

Noun

trivial (plural trivials)

1. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

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