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Trivial

adjective

(informal) small and of little importance. Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling. "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"

Of little substance or significance. Synonym: superficial. "Only trivial objections"

Concerned with trivialities. "A trivial mind"

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... hint, and said artfully, "Mine was a thoughtless remark: of course a gentleman of your experience can test the mind on any subject, however trivial." He added piteously, "Still, if you would but leave the poets, who are all half crazy themselves, and examine me in the philosophers of Antiquity. Surely it would ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... different story there would have been to tell had someone had that thought only half an hour earlier! But it is often so. The most trivial miscalculation, the most insignificant mistake, seemingly, may prove to be of the most vital importance. Dick went to the telephone. It was one of the old-fashioned sort, still in almost universal use in the ...

— Facing the German Foe • Colonel James Fiske

... Constitution. There can accordingly be no doubt, Gentlemen, that precisely this was the intention of this provision of the Constitution; namely, that the prerogative was to be conceded to science that it should not lie under the limitations which the general criminal code imposes upon every-day, trivial ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... Aurilly, "you have trivial ideas, and I fear we shall never understand each other; I have preferred kindness to violence, but if you force me to change my plans, well! I will ...

— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas

... neighbor, he found the dark glasses focused upon himself with such fixity that he responded with a friendly nod, and, making some trivial remark, found Mr. Mannering not at all averse to conversation. A few commonplaces were exchanged until the arrival of Mr. Rosenbaum's ...

— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour

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