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trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)

  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      "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."
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
      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.
    • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
      As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
  3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  4. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  5. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
    1. (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
  6. (mathematics) Self-evident.
  7. Pertaining to the trivium.
  8. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

of little significance or value

common, ordinary

(biology) relating to, or designating a species

(mathematics) self-evident

trivial (plural trivials)

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

    • c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
      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
    • 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
      St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

  2. ^ Wikipedia: Trivium

  3. ^ Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Trivial”, in “False Pronunciation”, in A Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech‎[1], Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co, →OCLC, page 90.

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural trivials)

  1. trivial

Learned borrowing from Latin triviālis.

trivial (feminine triviale, masculine plural triviaux, feminine plural triviales)

  1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)
  2. ordinary, mundane, commonplace
    Synonyms: banal, commun, ordinaire
    Antonyms: nouveau, singulier, rare
  3. inelegant, unrefined (especially of a person's language)
    Synonym: inélégant
    Antonym: raffiné
  4. crass, crude, vulgar, obscene (words, language, behavior, etc.)
    Synonyms: brut, grossier, obscène
    Antonyms: courtois, gentil, poli, subtil

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

  1. trivial

Borrowed from French trivial, from Latin triviālis (“common”).

trivial (strong nominative masculine singular trivialer, comparative trivialer, superlative am trivialsten)

  1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)

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trivial

  1. trivial

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

  1. trivial

trivial m (plural triviais)

  1. (informal) a simple everyday meal

Borrowed from French trivial.

trivial m or n (feminine singular trivială, masculine plural triviali, feminine/neuter plural triviale)

  1. common, ordinary
    Synonyms: de rând, comun, obișnuit, ordinar
  2. obscene, indecent
    Synonyms: obscen, indecent

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural triviales)

  1. trivial
    Synonym: insignificante

trivial (comparative trivialare, superlative trivialast)

  1. trivial