trivial

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ / /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/

adj

Etymology: PIE word *tréyes * From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia. * From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).

Ignorable; of little significance or value.
“"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."”
“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.”
Commonplace, ordinary.
“As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.”
Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
Self-evident.
Pertaining to the trivium.
Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

noun

Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
“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”
“St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts”