Definition of Trivial

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Trivial

Found anywhere; common.

Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

Of or pertaining to the trivium.

One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

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Trivial Quotations

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius Caesar

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Virginia Woolf

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp

Trivial Translations

trivial in German is gehaltlos
trivial in Spanish is trivial

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