trivial
AdjektivSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈtɹɪv.i.əl//
- //ˈtɹɪv.jəl//
Ignorable; of little significance or value.
Adjektiv
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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."
In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
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Commonplace, ordinary.
As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
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Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
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Concerned with or involving trivia.
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Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
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Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
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Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
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Self-evident.
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Pertaining to the trivium.
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Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Herkunft
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 between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
Substantiv
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veraltetAny 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
St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts
Formen
- Plural
- trivials
- Komparativ
- more trivial
- Superlativ
- most trivial
trivial · Ignorable; of little significance or value.
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