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triviall

triviall is the obsolete spelling of trivial.

Meaning of trivial

Adjective

trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)

  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
    • "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
    • As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
  3. Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
  4. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  5. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  6. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

See all 11 meanings of trivial

Forms of triviall

comparativemore triviall
superlativemost triviall

Questions about triviall

What is triviall the obsolete spelling of?
Triviall is the obsolete spelling of trivial.

Words near triviall in the dictionary

  1. trivializers
  2. trivializes
  3. trivializing
  4. trivializingly
  5. trivializings
  6. triviall
  7. trivially
  8. trivialness
  9. trivials
  10. triviaphile
  11. triviaphiles

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