trivial

Definition of trivial in English English dictionary: Concerned with or involving trivia; Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; pertaining to the trivium; Common, ordinary; Self-evident; Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic; Of little significance or value; of little importance or value; Not very important; {a} trifling, inconsiderable, worthless; obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; A property is trivial if changing it does not "change" the object (i e mark it as modified) when the value changes; and it is not saved to disk or copied when the object is saved or copied, including copying to the kill ring Trivial properties are generally used for storing temporary values that should only be associated with the specific part [Whether a property is to be copied or saved may be specified independently, so the notion of "trivial" is a bit ambiguous -- rgr, 12-Mar-00 ]; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"; (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"; If I have to show you how to do this, you're in the wrong class; One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium; of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind; Of or pertaining to the trivium; Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair; {s} trifling, unimportant, insignificant, minor; If you describe something as trivial, you think that it is unimportant and not serious. The director tried to wave aside these issues as trivial details that could be settled later. not serious, important, or valuable trivial problem/matter/complaint etc (trivialis , from trivium , from tri- + via ); This problem is trivial: I know the answer (Cf difficult); not large enough to consider or notice; Found anywhere; common; Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar; frivolous; nominal; pennyante; yeasty
trivial functional dependency: A functional dependency of an attribute on a superset of itself
trivial name: a commonly used, non-systematic name of a chemical compound. Trivial names for many compounds have been in use since long before their exact chemical structures were determined
trivial names: plural form of trivial name
trivial pursuit: Trivial Pursuit is a board game where progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge, and popular culture questions. The game was made in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a sports editor for the Canadian Press, and Chris Haney, of Welland, Ontario, a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game. With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982
Trivial File Transfer Protocol: simple protocol for transferring files, simple version of FTP that does not have the ability to check user identity, TFTP
trivial expression: insignificant expression
trivial question: marginal problem, question which lacks importance, problem which lacks taste
trivially: {a} triflingly, lightly, meanly, vulgarly
non-trivial: (Mathematics) having some terms not equal to zero
non-trivial: not trivial; significant
trivialities: plural of triviality
trivially: in a frivolously trivial manner; "trivially motivated requests" with little effort; "we can prove trivially that this theorem is false
trivially: with little effort; "we can prove trivially that this theorem is false"
trivially: in an insignificant manner, unimportantly
trivially: In a trivial manner
trivially: in a frivolously trivial manner; "trivially motivated requests"
trivially: with little effort; "we can prove trivially that this theorem is false

trivial

Hyphenation

tri·vi·al

Turkish pronunciation

trîviıl

Synonyms

atomic, beside the point, commonplace, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, frivolous, immaterial, inappreciable, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant

Antonyms

consequential, important, significant, useful, valuable, weighty, worthwhile

Pronunciation

/ˈtrəvēəl/ /ˈtrɪviːəl/

Etymology

() From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.