Word Meanings - TRIVIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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- + via a way: cf. F. 1. Found anywhere; common. 2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling;

Additional info about word: TRIVIAL

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- + via a way: cf. F. 1. Found anywhere; common. 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 , the specific name. The common name, not describing the structure and from which the structure cannot be deduced; -- contrasted with systematic name.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRIVIAL)

• Childish
• Weak
• silly
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• foolish
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Contemptible
• despicable
• mean
• vile
• pitiful
• disreputable
• Flimsy
• Gauzy
• poor
• thin
• transparent
• inane
• slight
• superficial
• weak
• shallow
• Frivolous
• Trifling
• petty
• worthless
• Immaterial
• Spiritual
• incorporeal
• unimportant
• insignificant
• unessential

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRIVIAL)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to TRIVIAL)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• PITIFUL
  1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser. 3. To be
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.