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  1. adjective Of little significance or value.
  2. adjective Ordinary; commonplace.
  3. adjective Concerned with or involving trivia.
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  • This, of course, is owing to our double standard of morality, which looks upon as a trivial or no offense in the man what it condemns as a heinous crime in the woman. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • It's rather like incense offered to the ghost of my old self His accent was trivial, and Brenton, listening to the apparently careless words, could form no notion of the pains that had gone into their choosing Your new self, I should say. —  The Brentons
  • A mean, or merely bookish, rhythm is rebuked by the sea, as a trivial or insincere thought is rebuked by the stars. —  Figures of Several Centuries
  • It is so with all things, little or big, majestic or trivial--there are no exceptions. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays
  • 304 Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it Chinese. —  Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources
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  1. Middle English trivialle, of the trivium (from Medieval Latin triviālis, from trivium, trivium; see trivium) and Latin triviālis, ordinary (from trivium, crossroads).

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  1. from French trivial = Spanish Portuguese trivial = Italian triviale, from Latin trivialis, of the cross-roads, hence common, commonplace, Middle Latin of the trivium, or three liberal arts, from trivium, a meeting of three roads, in Middle Latin the first three liberal arts: see trivium. Cf. bivial, quadrivial.
 

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