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語源

• 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”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/, (now rare except in rapid speech) /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/

形容詞

trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)

1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     "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."

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:

     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. Commonplace, ordinary.
   • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:

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

3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
4. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
5. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
   1. (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
6. (mathematics) Self-evident.
7. Pertaining to the trivium.
8. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

同意語

• (of little significance): ignorable, negligible, trifling, frothy

反意語

• nontrivial
• important
• significant
• radical
• fundamental

派生語

名詞

trivial (plural trivials)

1. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:

     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

   • 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:

     St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

参照

Further reading

• “trivial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “trivial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• trivial in Britannica Dictionary
• trivial in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• trivial in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• trivial in WordReference English Collocations

アナグラム

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