Trivial

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  • adjective. Of little significance or value.
  • adjective. Concerned with or involving unimportant matters; superficial.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being the solution of an equation in which every variable is equal to zero.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; self-evident.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
  • adjective. Found anywhere; common.
  • adjective. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
  • adjective. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the trivium.
  • adjective. the specific name.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of little significance or value.
  • adjective. Common, ordinary.
  • adjective. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  • adjective. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  • adjective. Self-evident.
  • adjective. Pertaining to the trivium.
  • adjective. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
  • noun. Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. concerned with trivialities
  • adjective. of little substance or significance
  • adjective. (informal) small and of little importance
  • Word Usage
    "During one Sen.te meeting on the immigration legislation, he attacked Sen. John Cornyn of Texas for raising what he characterized as trivial objections to a compromise being worked out with the White House."
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