trivial

Meanings

Adjective

• Ignorable; of little significance or value.
• Commonplace, ordinary.
• 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.
• Self-evident.
• Pertaining to the trivium.
• Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Noun

• Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Related

Similar words

• ignorable, negligible, trifling

Opposite words

• nontrivial
• important
• significant
• radical
• fundamental

Origin

• From Latin triviālis ("appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar"), from trivium. Compare trivium, trivia.
• From the distinction between trivium and quadrivium.