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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Trivial \Triv"i*al\, a. [L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see {Tri-}) + via a way: cf. F. trivial. See {Voyage}.] 1. Found anywhere; common. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. [1913 Webster] As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. [1913 Webster] The trivial round, the common task. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. [1913 Webster] {Trivial name} (Nat. Hist.), the specific name. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Trivial \Triv"i*al\, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] --Skelton. Wood. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: trivial adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}] 2: of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [syn: {superficial}, {trivial}] 3: concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: trivial adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2. Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly {cretinous} would have thought of them already. 4. Any problem one has already solved (some claim that hackish trivial usually evaluates to ?I've seen it before?). Hackers' notions of triviality may be quite at variance with those of non-hackers. See {nontrivial}, {uninteresting}. The physicist Richard Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an amazing degree (see his essay ?Los Alamos From Below? in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!), defined trivial theorem as ?one that has already been proved?. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: trivial /tʀivjal/ commonplace; course; vulgar From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]: trivial 1. commonplace; dismal; trite 2. commonplace; course; vulgar From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: trivial commonplace; course; vulgar From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]: trivial commonplace; dismal; trite(banala)