Such as may be found everywhere; commonplace; ordinary; vulgar.
Trifling; insignificant; of little worth or importance; paltry.
Occupying one's self with trifles; trifling.
Of or pertaining to the trivium, or the first three liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, and logic; hence, initiatory; rudimentary.
In zoology and botany: Common; popular; vernacular; not technical: noting the popular or familiar names of animals or plants, as distinguished from the technical New Latin names.
Specific; not generic: noting what used to be called the nomen triviale—that is, the second or specific term in the binomial technical name of an animal or a plant, such terms being often adopted or adapted from a popular name or epithet.
In echinoderms, specifically, of or pertaining to the trivium: as, the trivial (anterior) ambulacra of a sea-urchin.
noun.
One of the three liberal arts which constitute the trivium.
noun.
A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered.