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trivial

AdjektivSubstantivin Dialogen belegt

  • //ˈtɹɪv.i.əl//
  • //ˈtɹɪv.jəl//

Ignorable; of little significance or value.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Commonplace, ordinary.

    As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.

  3. 3

    Easy; requiring little skill or effort.

  4. 4

    Concerned with or involving trivia.

  5. 5

    Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.

  6. 6

    Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

  7. 7

    Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.

  8. 8

    Self-evident.

  9. 9

    Pertaining to the trivium.

  10. 10

    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

  1. 1

    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
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