trivial
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
The English word “trivial” has 11 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- Self-evident.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
noun
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,…
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