trivial

UK /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ US /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
adj 5noun 1

Definitions

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.

noun

1

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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