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."
Commonplace, ordinary.
As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
PIE word *tréyes * From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia. * From the distinction betwe...
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