Trivial Definition

trĭvē-əl
adjective
Of little or no importance; insignificant; trifling.
Webster's New World
Commonplace.
Webster's New World
Concerned with or involving unimportant matters; superficial.
A trivial colleague; a trivial remark.
American Heritage
Of, relating to, or being the solution of an equation in which every variable is equal to zero.
American Heritage
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; self-evident.
American Heritage
noun

(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

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Other Word Forms of Trivial

Noun

Singular:
trivial
Plural:
trivials

Origin of Trivial

  • Middle English trivialle of the trivium (from Medieval Latin triviālis) (from trivium trivium trivium) Latin triviālis ordinary (from trivium crossroads)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar"), from trivium (“place where three roads meet"). Compare trivium, trivia.

    From Wiktionary

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