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trivial.

Ignorable; of little significance or value.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl//ˈtɹɪv.jəl/
  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.

  2. Commonplace, ordinary.

  3. Easy; requiring little skill or effort.

  4. Concerned with or involving trivia.

  5. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.

  6. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

  7. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.

  8. Self-evident.

  9. Pertaining to the trivium.

  10. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl//ˈtɹɪv.jəl/
  1. Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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”).

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