trivial : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: trivial	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for trivial
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trivial adj (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" Synonym(s): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" Synonym(s): superficial, trivial concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trivial \Triv"i*al\, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] --Skelton. Wood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trivial \Triv"ial\, 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.] 2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. --De Quincey. 3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial* subject or affair. The trivial round, the common task. --Keble. 4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. {Trivial name} (Nat. Hist.), the specific name.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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".