Trivial

Definition: Trivial

Trivial

Adjective

1. (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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".

2. Obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose".

3. Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections".

4. Concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind".

5. Not large enough to consider or notice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trivial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Computing

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Synonyms: Trivial

Frequency

Old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.

Knowledge

Known; Verb: ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.

Littleness

Impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial; infinitesimal, homoeopathic; atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Unmeaningness

Trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.

Crosswords: Trivial

French (commonplace, course, vulgar), German (banal, commonplace, course, trite, trivial, vulgar), Portuguese (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosy, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), Romanian (coarse, common, foul, licentious, low-lived, peddling, trite, vulgar, vulgarly), Spanish (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, footling, mundane, piffling, platitudinous, sapless, trite, trivial), Swedish (commonplace, course, fiddling, pedestrian, pettifogging, petty, trite, trivial, vulgar).

Mallory, someone stupid calledsometime todayabout something trivial. (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes)

Words are trivial (Enjoy the Silence; performing artist: Depeche Mode)

Trivial Pursuit (1993)

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Books

• Hip and Trivial : Youth Culture, Book Publishing, and the Greying of Canadian Nationalism (reference)

• Language Arts Trivial Pursuit: Junior High Grades 7-9 (reference)

• Social Studies Trivial Pursuit: Intermediate with Book and Cards and Gameboard (reference)

• The Complete Male Handbook for Sex, Dating, and Other Trivial Stuff (reference)

• Trivial Conquest: The Smart Reference Source for Trivial Pursuit: The Board Game (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• As Trivial As Life & Death [IMPORT] (reference)

• No Trivial Moment (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Trivial Pursuit (reference)

• Trivial Pursuit: Millennium Edition (reference)

• Trivial Pursuit: NASCAR (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To adopt a trivial word, that is to say, a popular and a true one, they looked glum.

The question of honour here raised was, like all such questions, trivial to him.

Nothing was too trivial for the Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may be to modern taste.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The impairments associated with chronic fatigue syndrome are not trivial. (references)

It's common for marijuana users to become engrossed with ordinary sights, sounds, or tastes, and trivial events may seem extremely interesting or funny. (references)

The incidence of major and moderate bacterial infections was significantly reduced in hypogammaglobulinemic CLL patients who received IVIG. The number of trivial infections was unchanged by intravenous immunoglobulin. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Arthur Phillip landed at Sydney, and formal proclamation of the establishment of the Colony of New South Wales followed on February 7. Many but by no means all of the first settlers were convicts, condemned for offenses that today would often be thought trivial. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

At times persons are detained for trivial offenses or on unsubstantiated accusations. (references)

Nepal

Since its establishment, the Commission has received 528 complaints of human rights violations, and has investigated 51. Some cases involve disappearance of detainees, illegal detention, and arrest of acquitted persons, but many other cases are relatively trivial. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Husbands are known to kill their wives even for trivial offenses. (references)

Pakistan

In 1999 the Pakistan Peace Coalition surveyed 1,000 women in 10 communities in rural Punjab; 82 percent of the respondents reported that they feared violence from their husbands over trivial matters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "trivial": become trivial ♦ trivial File Transfer Protocol ♦ trivial loss ♦ trivial matter ♦ trivial mistake ♦ trivial name ♦ trivial pension. Additional references.

Ending with "trivial": non-trivial.

Albanian

i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, undersized), i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, tin, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متواضع (humble, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, modest, negligible, slight, small, unassuming, unpretentious), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏زهيد (cheap, paltry, piddling, poor, scanty, scrimpy, small), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, lay, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, unexceptional, wont), ‏عديم الأهمية (inconsequence, insignificant, pettiness, triviality), ‏طفيف (incommodious, inconsiderable, skin deep, slight, small, tenuous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тривиален, обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), несъществен (accidental, incidental, inessential, insubstantial, non essential, pasteboard, unessential, unsubstantial), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), нищожен (exiguous, footling, insignificant, miserable, naught, negligible, nominal, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, pygmy, shabby, trifling), лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, unreflecting, unthinking), банален (banal, commonplace, everyday, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, tired, trite, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out), дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, little, mean, mouldy, niggling, niminy-piminy, pernickety, pettifogging, petty, small, small minded), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Chinese 

琐细, 瑣細 , 區區 . (various references)

Czech

triviální (banal, frivolous, piddling, platitudinous, trifling), všední (commonplace, corny, everyday, flat, ordinary, shallow, trite), nicotný (frothy, futile, meaningless, nugatory, wishy washy), nedùležitý (desultory, immaterial, minor, small, unimportant), jednotvárný (drab, dull, featureless, humdrum, jejune, monotonous, uneventful, uniform, unrelieved). (various references)

Danish

TFTP-protokol (TFTP, trivial file transfer protocol), TFTP (TFTP, trivial file transfer protocol), ubetydelig pension (trivial pension). (various references)

Dutch

trivial file transfer protocol (TFTP, trivial file transfer protocol), TFTP (TFTP, trivial file transfer protocol), zeer klein pensioen (trivial pension). (various references)

Farsi 

مبتذل (Banal, Commonplace, Humdrum, Pedestrian, Stale, Vulgar), ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Little, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Scrimp, Straw, Teeny, Trifle, Vain), ناقابل (Bagatelle, Incapable, Inconsiderable, Trifle), کم مایه (Thin), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Vain). (various references)

Finnish

turhanpäiväinen (futile, trifling), vähäpätöinen (insignificant, of little importance, slight, trifling, unimportant), mitätön (inconsiderable trifling, insignificant, invalid, not valid, void), joutavan pieni (trifling). (various references)

French

sans valeur (trumpery), sans importance, normal, léger, insignifiant (trifling), futile (trifling), banal (trite). (various references)

German

belanglos (inconsequential, insignificant, insignificantly, irrelevant, irrelevantly, petty, piddling, trifling, unimportant), alltäglich (commonplace, daily, day to day, everyday, humdrum, mundane, ordinary, prosaic, prosaically, workaday). (various references)

Greek 

μηδαμινόσ (insignificant, minimal, nugatory, null and void, paltry, petty, piccaroon, trifling), ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, piddling, potty, purportless, slight, trifling, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Hebrew 

קל ערך (light weight, petty, trifling), קט� ו� י (minute, niggling, petty, small, small minded, tiny), זעיר (a little while, diminutive, fiddling, inappreciable, minuscule, petite, small, teeny, tiny, wee), טריביאלי (petty). (various references)

Hungarian

elcsépelt (banal, commonplace, corny, hackneyed, overworked, rinky-dink, stale, threadbare, trite, well-trodden). (various references)

Indonesian

tak berarti (insignificant), sepele (insignificant, unimportant), cuai (insignificant, unimportant), biasa (accustomed, adjusted, banal, conversant, habitual, lay, ordinary, regular, usual), basi (bowl, fusty, reduction, spoiled, stale). (various references)

Italian

volgare (broad, caddish, coarse, common, everyday, gross, low, lowbrow, Randy, rude, vernacular, vulgar), insignificante (inexpressive, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, potty, slight, trifling), futile (futile, nugatory, peddling, piffling, shallow, trifling), banale (banal, common, commonplace, corny, dismal, hackneyed, mundane, platitudinous, prosy, trite). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

瑣末 (trifling), 区区 (conflicting, different, divergent, diverse, several, various), 区々 (conflicting, different, divergent, diverse, several, various), 些細 (slight), 些些たる (trifling), 些々たる (trifling), 末梢的 (insignificant, minor), 下らない (good-for-nothing, stupid, worthless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

く� らない (good-for-nothing, stupid, worthless), くく (conflicting, different, divergent, diverse, every clause, multiplication table, several, various), まっしょうてき (insignificant, minor), まちまち (conflicting, different, divergent, diverse, several, various), さまつ (trifling), ささたる (trifling), ささい (slight). (various references)

Korean 

하찮은 (insignificant, sleazy). (various references)

Manx

neuscanshoil (footling, unimportant), jeh beggan scansh (unimportant), gyn foaynoo (worthless), fardailagh (empty, empty of words, frivolous, fruitless, futile, trifling, unavailing, vain, vain of hope). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivialtray

Portuguese

trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosy, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, gossipy, gross, hackney, hackneyed, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-minded, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian, penny-a-line, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, ready-made, soulless, trite, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), superficial (aboveground, above-ground, amateurish, flashy, flimsy, flippant, frothy, lip-deep, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin-deep, superficial), sem qualidades morais, sem capacidade, insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, unimportant, wispy), de pouca importância (nickel and dime, puerile), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, flimsy, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosaic, prosy, quotidian, ready-made, stale, trifling, trite, undistinguished, unimportant, unoriginal, vulgar). (various references)

Romanian

superficial (cursory, external, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, yeasty), ordinar (boorish, caddish, coarse, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, ordinary, regular, rough, slavish, unrefined, usual, vulgar), neştiinţific (unscientific), neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slender, slight, small, trifling), neînlãturat (trifling), meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, stingy), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, piffling, simple, threepenny, trashy, trumpery, useless, void, worthless), fãrã importanţã (inconsiderable, insignificant, of no interest, of no moment, peddling, trifling), banal (banal, cheap, commonplace, daily, dusty, everyday, hackneyed, humdrum, indifferent, indistinctive, insipid, mediocre, puerile, small, threadbare, trite, unimaginative). (various references)

Russian 

тривиальный (hackneyed, obvious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trivijalan (fiddling), uobičajen (consuetudinary, customary, habitual, ordinary, usual, wonted), sitan (minute, petty, piddling, small, trifling, wee), prost (coarse, common, commoner, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, underbred, vulgar), beznačajan (fiddling, immaterial, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, pointless, trifling, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant). (various references)

Spanish

trivial (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, footling, mundane, piffling, platitudinous, sapless, trite). (various references)

Swedish

värdelös (chaffy, cheesy, crappy, fustian, naught, ne'erdoweel, no go, null, punk, straw, trumpery, useless, valueless, vile, worthless), obetydlig (baubling, dinky, fiddling, footling, fractional, fractionary, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, low, lowly, mean, minute, negligible, nobody, nugatory, one horse, peddling, picayune, piddling, slight, tenuous). (various references)

Turkish

saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), küçük (baby, bantam, child, fiddling, inconsiderable, infant, infra-, junior, kid, little, micro-, mini, mini-, minor, minuscule, nano-, niggardly, not healthy, one horse, paltry, peanut, petit, petty, piddling, poky, remote, slight, small, snug, tiddly, trifling, undersized, young, younger), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, niggardly, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), abes (abortive, absurd, fruitless, futile, meaningless, nonsense, nugatory, unfit, unreasonable, unsuitable, useless, vain), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

тривіальний (obvious), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thường (banal, habitual, mediocre, normal, often, oftentimes, ordinary, still, trifling, unsatisfactory, usual, vulgar), tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, prosy, soulless, straw, unideal, uninsprired), không quan trọng không có t� i cán gì, không đáng kể (inconsiderable, negligible, paltry, puerile, unimportant), bình thường (casual, common, ordinary). (various references)

Welsh

gwacsaw (frivolous, giddy), dibwys (unimportant). (various references)

levana, leve, levem, levi, levia, leviora, leviores, levis, levius, leviusque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trivial": trivialise, trivialised, trivialises, trivialising, trivialist, trivialists, trivialities, triviality, trivialization, trivializations, trivialize, trivialized, trivializes, trivializing, trivially. (additional references)

Words ending with "trivial": nontrivial. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trivial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ftrival, privial, rivia, stroviol, tivia, Tividale, treveal, trevean, trevia, Trevira, Trevisa, Trevisan, Trewia, Tridimas, tritial, triva, trival, triveal, trivi, triviat, trivil, trivio, trizial. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: trivia.

-2 letters: litai, rival, trail, trial, viral, vital.

-3 letters: airt, alit, aril, ilia, lair, lari, lati, liar, lira, liri, rail, rial, tail, tali, tirl, vail, vair, vial, virl, vita.

-4 letters: ail, air, ait, alt, art, lar, lat, lav, lit, rat, ria, tar, tav, til, var, vat, via.

-5 letters: ai, al, ar, at, it, la, li.

+2 letters: antiviral, leviratic, trivially, vibratile.

+3 letters: clavierist, intravital, irrelative, nontrivial, relativism, relativist, relativity, relativize, revitalise, revitalize, revivalist, travailing, trivialise, trivialist, triviality, trivialize, virtuality.

+4 letters: circulative, clavierists, diverticula, drivability, intervallic, invalidator, inventorial, invigilator, iteratively, lubricative, meliorative, outrivaling, partitively, privatively, relativisms, relativists, relativized, relativizes, replicative, retaliative, revitalised, revitalises, revitalized, revitalizes, revivalists, survivalist, trivialised, trivialises, trivialists, trivialized, trivializes, ultravirile, variability, variational, verbalistic, versatility, verticality, vibrational, virginalist, vitrifiable, vulgarities.