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trivial::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | superficial |
| Derivation | trivia, triviality, trivialize |
only trivial objections.
trivial::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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a trivial young woman.
a trivial mind.
Examples of trivial
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Higher tariffs on the trivial amount of imports they faced did nothing for them.
From the online.wsj.com
When you say that eavesdropping on GPRS encryption is trivial, what do you mean?
From the forbes.com
What may seem trivial to you may turn out to be inspiring and helpful to others.
From the forbes.com
Unless you're talking about that, you're talking about something that's trivial.
From the time.com
Steering each optical fiber to the right CCD was no trivial task, says Schlegel.
From the sciencedaily.com
I'll select an ostensibly trivial instance that is somehow appallingly eloquent.
From the theatlantic.com
It also diminishes the role of men in the family by suggesting it to be trivial.
From the ocregister.com
Even today, when adding video to a phone is a trivial cost, consumers may rebel.
From the nytimes.com
It's full of tiny, trivial details, which really amount to something at the end.
From the independent.co.uk
- Fiddling: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts ...
- Superficial: of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
- Concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
- (triviality) pettiness: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- (triviality) technicality: a detail that is considered insignificant
- (triviality) something of small importance
- (trivially) with little effort; "we can prove trivially that this theorem is false"
- In mathematics, the adjective trivial is frequently used for objects (for examples, groups or topological spaces) that have a very simple structure. The noun triviality usually refers to a simple technical aspect of some proof or definition.
- (Trivially) The trivia (singular trivium, adjective trivial) are the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, rhetoric and logic. ...
