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Trivial

·adj Found anywhere; common.

II. Trivial ·adj Of or pertaining to the trivium.

III. Trivial ·adj Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

IV. Trivial ·noun One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

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

trivial

If you describe something as trivial, you think that it is unimportant and not serious.

The director tried to wave aside these issues as trivial details that could be settled later...

ADJ

trivial

¦ adjective

1. of little value or importance.

2. Mathematics denoting a subgroup that either contains only the identity element or is identical with the given group.

Derivatives

triviality noun (plural trivialities).

trivially adverb

Word History

Trivial entered Middle English from Latin trivium 'place where three roads meet', from tri- 'three' and via 'road, way'. A medieval trivium was an introductory course at a university involving the study of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. In the Middle Ages seven 'liberal arts' were recognized, of which the trivium contained the lower three and the quadrivium the upper four (the 'mathematical arts' of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music). This association with elementary subjects led to trivial being used to mean 'of little value or importance' from the 16th century.

Wikipedia

Trivia

Trivia is information and data that are considered to be of little value. It can be contrasted with general knowledge and common sense. The word is derived from the Latin word triviae, meaning a place where a road split into two (thus, creating a three-way intersection). It was introduced into English as the adjective trivial in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Modern usage of the term trivia dates back to the 1960s, when college students introduced question-and-answer contests to their universities. A board game, Trivial Pursuit, was released in 1982 in the same vein as these contests. Since the beginning of its modern usage, trivia contests have been established at various academic levels as well as casual venues such as bars and restaurants.

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