trivial

Meaning

Adj

1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
2. Commonplace, ordinary.
3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
4. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
5. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
6. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
7. Self-evident.
8. Pertaining to the trivium.
9. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Noun

Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Synonyms

trifling

insignificant

unimportant

petty

paltry

minor

commonplace

small

frivolous

little

slight

negligible

picayune

inconsequential

piddling

worthless

footling

niggling

fiddling

banal

inconsiderable

common

ordinary

bitsy

potty

piffling

light

indifference

immaterial

idle

miscellaneous

useless

uninfluential

unimposing

unimpressive

frivolous talk

trite

marginal

stale

superficial

trivia

not amounting to much

puny

lilliputian

small-time

nugatory

nickel-and-dime

measly

meaningless

smashed

Translations

trivial

trivial

trivial

trivial

ασήμαντος

insignificante

sans importance

belanglos

futile

trivial

μηδαμινός

insignifiant

onbeduidend

banal

banale

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/

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”).