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trivial 音标拼音: [tr'ɪviəl] a. 琐细的,日常的,轻微的,平常的 琐细的,日常的,轻微的,平常的 trivial adj 1: (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"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [synonym: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}] 2: of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [synonym: {superficial}, {trivial}] 3: concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind" Trivial \Triv"i*al\, a. [L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see {Tri-}) via a way: cf. F. trivial. See {Voyage}.] 1. Found anywhere; common. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. [1913 Webster] As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. [1913 Webster] The trivial round, the common task. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. [1913 Webster] {Trivial name} (Nat. Hist.), the specific name. [1913 Webster] Trivial \Triv"i*al\, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] --Skelton. Wood. [1913 Webster] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for "trivial": Mickey, NG, airy, ankle-deep, asinine, base, bickering, captious, casual, catchpenny, caviling, cheap, choplogic, cursory, deficient, depthless, empty, epidermal, equivocatory, evasive, fatuous, few, flimsy, foolish, footling, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hairsplitting, hedging, idle, imperfect, inadequate, inane, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, insufficient, jejune, junk, junky, knee-deep, light, little, logic-chopping, low, maladroit, meager, mean, measly, mediocre, miniature, minor, negligible, nit-picking, no great shakes, no-account, no-good, not comparable, not deep, not in it, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, nugatory, on the surface, otiose, out of it, paltering, petty, picayune, picayunish, pussyfooting, quibbling, shabby, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, shoddy, shoestring, short, shuffling, silly, skin-deep, slender, slight, small, small-beer, superficial, surface, thin, tiny, trashy, trichoschistic, trifling, trite, unimportant, unprofound, unskillful, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, windy, worthless trivial: adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. TRIVIAL. Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4237. See Hopk. R. 112; 4 John. Ch. 183; 4 Paige, 364.
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