trivial

TRIV-ee-uladj

Meaning of little importance or value

Memory hook TRIVIA-l: a tiny fact that hardly matters. Zoe frets that her left sock is one shade darker than her right. It’s a trivial difference; no one will ever notice.

Don’t worry about such a trivial mistake; it was only one comma.

In context To Dev, the scratch on his bike seemed trivial next to the real problem: the front wheel was bent and would not turn at all.

Similar unimportant, minor, petty, insignificant

Opposite important, significant, crucial

From Latin trivialis, “commonplace,” from trivium, “a place where three roads meet.”

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