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Source: wn
trivial
adj 1: (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are
at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse
regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details";
"limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts";
"giving a police officer a free meal may be against
the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
[syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little},
{Mickey Mouse}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty},
{picayune}]

2: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
prose" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace}]
3: of little substance or significance; "a few superficial
editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [syn: {superficial}]
4: concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a
trivial mind"
5: not large enough to consider or notice [syn: {insignificant}]

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