Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being trivial.
- noun Something trivial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Trivial or paltry character or quality.
- noun Pl. trivialities (-tiz). A trivial thing; a trifle; a matter of little value or importance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.
- noun That which is trivial; a trifle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
trivial orunimportant . - noun Something which is trivial or unimportant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- noun something of small importance
- noun a detail that is considered insignificant
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Examples
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I believe that Mr. Brady's experimentation with financial Ludditism was a venture in triviality.
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Going to the particular case of the fine structure constant, allow me to recall a triviality: that it also depends of the point where the electroweak symmetry breaks.
The Reference Frame 2010
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Bitch about The Washington Post's "triviality" all you want, but the story will hurt Edwards, and, really, as self-respecting bloggers looking for readers, why do you all want to keep repeating the same thing?
Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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You like solving the kind of triviality that leads nowhere.
Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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_Speaker_ were a mere party rag like "Judy" or "The Times," it would be only remarkable for moderation, but to us who have built hopes on it as the pioneer of a younger and larger political spirit it is difficult to be silent when we find it, as it seems to us, poisoned with that spirit of ferocious triviality which is the spirit of
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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AIf you are between the ages of 60 and 75, and the combined value of all your pension funds is less than £18,000 for 2010/11, you can take your pension funds as a lump sum under the "triviality" rule.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2010
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The only way you can lift the remaining £1,000 of your Equitable Life fund is if you can meet the rules relating to what is known as 'triviality'.
This is Money | Home 2009
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There is so much more to this book and readers shouldn't be scared away by the triviality.
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The youth are going out today against troubles, triviality and political parties.
As Arab Spring Turns Violent, Democracy Advocates Face Big Challenges Matt Bradley 2011
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It is his short stories, rather than the 'triviality of biography', that provide the best clues to the secret life of this intensely private writer, argues Janet Malcolm
Vicenta commented on the word triviality
I am glad to know the meaning of this word.Thanks 8)
October 5, 2011