trivial en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/ now rare except in rapid speech
- /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
Etymology
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”).
Meanings
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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."
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
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Commonplace, ordinary.
As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
- Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- (of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. ▸ Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- Self-evident.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| triviall | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| more trivial | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most trivial | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
fundamental · radical · nontrivial · significant · important
Deriveds
trivially · trivia · trivialism · non-trivial · triviality · trivialisation · trivialization · trivial name · quasitrivial · trivialise · trivialness · untrivial · trivial group · trivial functional dependency · trivial solution · trivial topology · supertrivial · trivialistic · trivialize · nontrivial · isotrivial · trivialist · semitrivial · trivial absolute value
Synonyms
trifling (of little significance) · ignorable (of little significance) · negligible (of little significance) · Lilliputian (of little significance) · frothy (of little significance)
Translations (140)
ru тривиа́льный ((mathematics) self-evident) · es trivial ((mathematics) self-evident) · bg незначи́телен (of little significance or value) · el μηδαμινός (of little significance or value) · fi yksinkertainen (common, ordinary) · ur اَدْنیٰ (of little significance or value) · it insignificante (of little significance or value) · ja 自明な ((mathematics) self-evident) · pt trivial (of little significance or value) · hu nyilvánvaló ((mathematics) self-evident) · no triviell ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · ja ありふれた (common, ordinary) · ka ჩვეულებრივი (common, ordinary) · it ordinario (common, ordinary) · ro trivial (common, ordinary) · be трывія́льны (of little significance or value) · mi kūrapa (of little significance or value) · fr banal (common, ordinary) · ru бана́льный (common, ordinary) · cmn 平凡 (common, ordinary) · hu magától értetődő ((mathematics) self-evident) · fi triviaali (of little significance or value) · uk цікавинко́вий (concerned with or involving trivia) · cmn 瑣細 /琐细 (of little significance or value) · pt trivial ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · de trivial ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · uk неособли́вий (common, ordinary) · sv ordinär (common, ordinary) · de bedeutungslos (of little significance or value) · ru тривиа́льный ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · es trivial (common, ordinary) · ru ничто́жный (of little significance or value) · sh три̏вија̄лан (of little significance or value) · et argine (common, ordinary) · ka უბრალო (common, ordinary) · la levis (of little significance or value) · cmn 瑣碎 /琐碎 (of little significance or value) · pl trywialny (common, ordinary) · ka ყოველდღიური (common, ordinary) · tr ıvır zıvır (of little significance or value) · de belanglos (of little significance or value) · it trascurabile (of little significance or value) · el τιποτένιος (of little significance or value) · pl bagatelny (of little significance or value) · fi tavallinen (common, ordinary) · sh trȉvijālan (of little significance or value) · ru незначи́тельный (of little significance or value) · eo triviala ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · be мізэ́рны (of little significance or value) · pt trivial (common, ordinary) · uk тривіа́льний (of little significance or value) · gl trivial (of little significance or value) · sv uppenbar ((mathematics) self-evident) · gd cumanta (common, ordinary) · fr anodin (of little significance or value) · pt trivial ((mathematics) self-evident) · fi triviaali ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · sv trivial ((mathematics) self-evident) · ja 蛇足の (concerned with or involving trivia) · sv trivial (common, ordinary) · is augljós ((mathematics) self-evident) · mi meroiti (of little significance or value) · be трывія́льны ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · el ασήμαντος (of little significance or value) · ja 末梢的な (of little significance or value) · hi साधारण (common, ordinary) · de trivial ((mathematics) self-evident) · ja 通称の ((biology) relating to, or designating a species) · cs triviální (common, ordinary) · cmn 平凡 ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · fr trivial ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · et tühine (of little significance or value) · ka უმნიშვნელო (of little significance or value) · ru тривиа́льный (common, ordinary) · ca trivial (of little significance or value) · be нязна́чны (of little significance or value) · ru ме́лкий (of little significance or value) · et tavaline (common, ordinary) · hu triviális ((mathematics) self-evident) · el κοινός (common, ordinary) · uk незначни́й (of little significance or value) · uk тривіа́льний ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · pl trywialny (of little significance or value) · ru обы́чный (common, ordinary) · hu közönséges (common, ordinary) · uk віктори́нний (concerned with or involving trivia) · ja つまらない (of little significance or value) · sv trivial (of little significance or value) · no triviell ((mathematics) self-evident) · fi turhanaikainen (concerned with or involving trivia) · bg всекидне́вен (common, ordinary) · it banale (common, ordinary) · eo bagatela (of little significance or value) · ja 枝葉の (of little significance or value) · cs triviální ((mathematics) self-evident) · mi paraurehe (of little significance or value) · la sublestus (of little significance or value) · sv vanlig (common, ordinary) · ka ტრივიალური (of little significance or value) · gd suarach (of little significance or value) · hu útszéli (common, ordinary) · bg нищо́жен (of little significance or value) · cs druhový ((biology) relating to, or designating a species) · ca trivial (common, ordinary) · fr trivial (of little significance or value) · de trivial (common, ordinary) · ota یسیر (of little significance or value) · ta உப்பு பெறாத (of little significance or value) · bg обикнове́н (common, ordinary) · eo banala (common, ordinary) · sv enkel (of little significance or value) · cs bezvýznamný (of little significance or value) · fi mitätön (of little significance or value) · cmn 普通 (common, ordinary) · fr trivial ((mathematics) self-evident) · ar تافِه (of little significance or value) · fi triviaali ((mathematics) self-evident) · ja 些細な (of little significance or value) · mi tātakimōri (of little significance or value) · ru тривиа́льный (of little significance or value) · uk звича́йний (common, ordinary) · fi tyhjänpäiväinen (concerned with or involving trivia) · hu jelentéktelen (of little significance or value) · pl błahy (of little significance or value) · el τετριμμένος ((mathematics) self-evident) · ml നിസ്സാര (of little significance or value) · es trivial (of little significance or value) · ca banal (concerned with or involving trivia) · de unbedeutend (of little significance or value) · hi नगण्य (of little significance or value) · it banale ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · uk очеви́дний ((mathematics) self-evident) · es trivial ((mathematics) of being the simplest possible case) · de geringfügig (of little significance or value) · ko 사소하다 (of little significance or value) · uk мізе́рний (of little significance or value) · uk тривіа́льний (common, ordinary) · hi सामान्य (common, ordinary) · hi तुच्छ (of little significance or value) · ml സാധാരണ (common, ordinary)