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  1. 1. a. Found anywhere; common. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Of or pertaining to the trivium. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. Source: opted
  6. 6. adj. (informal) small and of little importance Source: wordnet
  7. 7. adj. of little substance or significance Source: wordnet
  8. 8. adj. concerned with trivialities Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 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.(Chem.) The common name, not describing the structure and from which the structure cannot be deduced; -- contrasted with systematic name. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] Skelton. Wood. Source: webster
  10. 10. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.]Skelton. Wood. Source: adambom
  11. 11. j:100 s. concerned with trivialities Source: ecdict

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