trivial
IPA: trˈɪviʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
adjective
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- (mathematics) Self-evident.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
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Examples of "trivial" in Sentences
- The mistake that he made is trivial.
- It is glib and trivializes the article.
- The converse of the theorem is true trivially.
- First, the linked content is trivial and inane.
- The former is exceptional, the latter is trivial.
- The consequent evolution of the two stubs is trivial.
- None of the content in the sources is remotely trivial.
- There's no need to blaspheme over such a trivial issue.
- It is not the subject of the review and the mention is trivial.
- A trivial proof of this is the situation at the beginning of the game.
- Every political battle these days, no matter how trivial, is a fight to the death with no quarter given. viagra Says:
- The though of someone deciding to send my innocent 6 year old girl to a reform school for something so trivial is infuriating.
- Mr Madhi escaped from Iran in February 2008 after being sentenced to 73 years in jail for what he described as a trivial charge.
- "I've come to the conclusion that it's a deliberate tactic," he said, citing several examples of what he calls "trivial" denials.
- Mr. Weinberg noted that the core inflation rate, which strips out volatile prices, is just 0.9 per cent on an annual basis, which he calls "trivial."
- 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.
- Fund then compared what he called the "trivial number" of 108 voters with the 1,420 military ballots that were rejected statewide, ignoring the other 996 who were eligible but were denied the right to vote.
- I'm not sure we have any comparative advantage, for example, in trivial feats in software design or education - aren't we off-shoring software jobs because other countries have relatively good software designers as a result of their relatively good educational systems?
- Notice that the characters don't interact with each other on the basis of their politics - the characters interact with each other on the basis of soap opera motivations (who's having sex with whom, who's been a college buddy of whom, who's trying to show whom up in trivial ways, who dresses like whom, who likes to drink what kind of booze, etc).