Definitions of trivial [ˈtrɪv i əl]

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Definition of 'trivial'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) trivial
of very little importance or value; insignificant.

2. trivial
commonplace; ordinary.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < L triviālis commonplace =trivi(um) place where three roads meet, public place (

Definition of 'trivial'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
(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"

2. (adj) superficial, trivial
of little substance or significance
"a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"

3. (adj) trivial
concerned with trivialities
"a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

Definition of 'trivial'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) trivial
unimportant or insignificant
a trivial matter; No one mentioned it because they thought it was trivial.

Definition of 'trivial'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) trivial
found anywhere; common

2. (adj) trivial
ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar

3. (adj) trivial
of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair

4. (adj) trivial
of or pertaining to the trivium

5. (noun) trivial
one of the three liberal arts forming the trivium

Definitions of 'trivial'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. trivial
1. Too simple to bother detailing.

2. Not worth the speaker's time.

3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly cretinous would have thought of them already.

4. Any problem one has already solved (some claim that hackish trivial usually evaluates to “I've seen it before”). Hackers' notions of triviality may be quite at variance with those of non-hackers. See nontrivial, uninteresting.

The physicist Richard Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an amazing degree (see his essay “Los Alamos From Below” in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!), defined trivial theorem as “one that has already been proved”.

Translation of 'trivial'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: of very little importance trivial details.
Afrikaans: triviaal	Arabic: زَهيد	Bulgarian: незначителен
Brazilian: trivial	Czech: bezvýznamný	German: unbedeutend
Danish: triviel	Greek: ασήμαντος	Spanish: trivial, insignificante,
Estonian: tühine	Farsi: کم اهمیت	Finnish: vähäpätöinen
French: insignifiant	Hebrew: קַל-עֶרֶך	Hindi: तुच्छ, नगण्य
Croatian: beznačajan, nevažan	Hungarian: jelentéktelen	Indonesian: sepele
Icelandic: smávægilegur	Italian: insignificante	Japanese: ささいな
Korean: 사소한	Lithuanian: nereikšmingas	Latvian: triviāls; banāls; nenozīm
Malay: remeh	Dutch: onbelangrijk	Norwegian: uvesentlig, triviell
Polish: nieistotny	Persian: کم اهمیت	Pashto: لږ ارزښت
Romanian: neînsemnat	Russian: незначительный	Slovak: bezvýznamný
Slovenian: nepomemben	Serbian: trivijalan	Swedish: obetydlig, trivial
Thai: ไม่สำคัญ	Turkish: önemsiz, değersiz	Taiwanese: 價值不大的，瑣細的
Ukrainian: банальний, тривіальний; д	Urdu: سطحي	Vietnamese: vặt vãnh
Chinese: 价值不大的，琐细的
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