trivial

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj trivial (informal) small and of little importance "a fiddling sum of money","a footling gesture","our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war","a little (or small) matter","a dispute over niggling details","limited to petty enterprises","piffling efforts","giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
  • adj trivial concerned with trivialities "a trivial young woman","a trivial mind"
  • adj trivial of little substance or significance "a few superficial editorial changes","only trivial objections"
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• Interesting fact: Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit
• • Trivial Found anywhere; common.
  • Trivial Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. "The trivial round, the common task."
  • Trivial Of or pertaining to the trivium.
  • n Trivial One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
  • Trivial Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. "As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labor."
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• Interesting fact: The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
• • trivial Such as may be found everywhere; commonplace; ordinary; vulgar.
  • trivial Trifling; insignificant; of little worth or importance; paltry.
  • trivial Occupying one's self with trifles; trifling.
  • trivial Of or pertaining to the trivium, or the first three liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, and logic; hence, initiatory; rudimentary.
  • trivial 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.
  • trivial 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. Thus, in the several designations Homo sapiens, Felis leo, Mus muscutus, Rosa canina, the words sapiens, leo, musculus, and canina are respectively the trivial names of the species they designate. See specific, 3 .
  • trivial In echinoderms, specifically, of or pertaining to the trivium: as, the trivial (anterior) ambulacra of a sea-urchin.
  • n trivial One of the three liberal arts which constitute the trivium.
  • n trivial A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered.
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• Interesting fact: It is a well known trivial fact that Neil Armstrong was the first man to step onto the moon. However, many do not know that he stepped onto the moon with his left foot.
• • adj Trivial triv′i-al that may be found anywhere, of little importance; trifling: common, vernacular
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• Julius Caesar

  

  “In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
• John Fowles

  

  “Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.”
• Andrea Dworkin

  

  “While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”
• Oscar Wilde

  

  “Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
• Sir Max Beerbohm

  

  “Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.”
• Bertrand Russell

  

  “Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”

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