English Explanatory Dictionary

trivial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
  7. Self-evident.
  8. Pertaining to the trivium.
  9. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
noun
  1. Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/ en-us-trivial.ogg

Word forms

trivial more trivial most trivial triviall trivials

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”).

Synonyms

ignorable negligible trifling frothy Lilliputian

Antonyms

nontrivial important significant radical fundamental

Derived words

nontrivial trivia trivial absolute value trivial functional dependency trivial group triviality trivially trivial name trivial solution trivial topology

Translations

Belarusian: трывія́льны Chinese Mandarin: 平凡 Esperanto: triviala Finnish: triviaali French: trivial German: trivial Italian: banale Norwegian: triviell Portuguese: trivial Russian: тривиа́льный Spanish: trivial Ukrainian: тривіа́льний
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