trivial

adjective

ˈtri-vē-əl How to pronounce trivial (audio)
Definition of trivialnext
1
as in minor
lacking importance why spend so much time on trivial decisions, like whether the soda should be regular or diet?

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2
as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention figured that restaurant customers wouldn't notice such a trivial surcharge on their bill

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Recent Examples of trivial An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026 The criss-crossings of coincidences and the overlapping bonds of acquaintance bring to the minute details of phone calls and handwritten notes, sly glances and trivial deceptions, a vast psychological reverberance. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026 Sanders’s aggressive wealth fund, for example, aims to start by paying roughly $1,000 to each American annually—which is not trivial, but is also far from a solution to mass unemployment. — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026 Why a minute matters Humphreys argued the time savings aren’t trivial, pointing to research tying ambulance response time to survival odds in the most severe cases. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for trivial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
  1. minor
  2. slight
  3. small
  4. nominal
  5. little
  6. petty
  7. unimportant
  8. insignificant
Adjective
  • In the Kyiv region, five people were wounded in the Brovary district, including a minor and two women, acting regional administration head Ruslan Oliinyk said on Facebook.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • Anthony Joseph Ramon, 25, of Gilroy, was first arrested on July 9 and charged with committing lewd and lascivious acts on a minor, according to the Morgan Hill Police Department.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
Definition of minor
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  • There were four outlandish, outcast characters, whom Goldberg utterly embodied with something as slight as the crossing of her eyes or the dragging of her leg.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
  • That total marks a slight increase in applications from the previous year, when the department reported receiving 52,529.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2026
Definition of slight
Adjective
  • Choose one grounding task, one budget-friendly move, and one small boundary.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2026
  • If reliable payment flows depend on a small number of large miners or dedicated pools, Bitcoin payments could become faster and more commercial, but also more dependent on specific infrastructure providers.
    — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of small
Adjective
  • Current bond yields, which tend to track nominal GDP trends, are still reflecting the rise in inflation that occurred during Covid.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • The walls had a nominal utility as fences for the dairy herd that was milked in the great white cow barn, but this was only ever a Gilded Age fantasy of the rustic idyll.
    — Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026
Definition of nominal
Adjective
  • The county purchased a brand new playground in 2022, but that did little to draw in visitors, or at least not the kind the Park and Recreation Department was hoping for.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Society has had very little time to develop stable rules around it.
    — Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of little
Adjective
  • His legal team couched the City Council’s move to weaken the mayor’s authority and strip him of privileges as a petty effort to unseat the youngest mayor in the city’s history, and one who has questioned their leadership.
    — Reed Williams, AJC.com, 29 July 2026
  • One Marchand report contained several petty and embarrassing details about McAfee that clearly came from ESPN insiders.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of petty
Adjective
  • None of this means org design is unimportant; a finance function with the wrong reporting lines or the wrong center of gravity for shared services will struggle regardless of how well everything else is designed.
    — Anders Liu-Lindberg, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Wright agrees that the findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that omega-3s are unimportant for the brain.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 14 July 2026
Definition of unimportant
Adjective
  • Translated, the traffic death count related to this movement is not insignificant.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • There are so many of them that the loss of a few is treated as insignificant, even though each container holds its own small world.
    — Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Definition of insignificant

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