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trivial

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10
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12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
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/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ · /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/

Definition of trivial

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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."”
    “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.”
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adj

  1. 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."”
    “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.”
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
    “As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.”
  3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  4. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  5. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  6. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  7. Self-evident.
  8. Pertaining to the trivium.
  9. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

noun

  1. (obsolete)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”
    “St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts”

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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…

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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”).

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