trivial
trivial Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Of very little value, importance, or significance; minor or inconsequential.
"The committee wasted hours debating trivial details instead of addressing the core budget deficit."
In mathematics and computing, self-evident, exceedingly simple to solve, or representing the most basic case (such as a solution where all variables equal zero).
"Once you apply the fundamental theorem, proving the remaining corollary becomes a trivial exercise."
Concerned only with superficial or unimportant matters; shallow (used of a person).
"Critics dismissed the protagonist as a trivial socialite who cared only about fashion and gossip."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trivialis, meaning 'commonplace' or 'found everywhere,' derived from trivium, a place where three roads meet (from tri- 'three' and via 'road'). It was also influenced by the medieval trivium, the introductory division of the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, and logic).