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trivialistic

trivialistic adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of trivia.

Adjective

trivialistic (comparative more trivialistic, superlative most trivialistic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of trivia.
    • There is a laying it on the letter to keep the life out, or the trivialistic use.1922, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 52, page 299
    • The majority of philosophy departments have compromised themselves with scientific subjects (which they teach amateurishly), with trivialistic rigor and fatuous clarity.1976, Frederick K. Huntington-Vigman, The Collapse of Western Civilization, page 95

Examples of trivialistic in a sentence

  • Thus attention is drawn in passing to two different cultures; one that is formalistic and trivialistic and another that is pragmatic and goes for the heart of the matter.2006, Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, page 76:
  • In all modern systems of dialethic logic, the main focus lies in producing a non-trivialistic proof theory2013, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 11, page 273:

Forms of trivialistic

comparativemore trivialistic
superlativemost trivialistic

Origin of trivialistic

From trivial + -istic.

Questions about trivialistic

What does trivialistic mean?
Trivialistic means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of trivia.
How do you use trivialistic in a sentence?
Thus attention is drawn in passing to two different cultures; one that is formalistic and trivialistic and another that is pragmatic and goes for the heart of the matter.
What part of speech is trivialistic?
Trivialistic is an adjective.

Words near trivialistic in the dictionary

  1. trivialises
  2. trivialising
  3. trivialism
  4. trivialisms
  5. trivialist
  6. trivialistic
  7. trivialists
  8. trivialities
  9. triviality
  10. trivializable
  11. trivialization

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