<b><font size="4">"trivial"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>(informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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" [syn: <a href="../fiddling.html">fiddling</a>, <a href="../footling.html">footling</a>, <a href="../lilliputian.html">lilliputian</a>, <a href="../little.html">little</a>, <a href="/">Mickey Mouse</a>, <a href="../niggling.html">niggling</a>, <a href="../piddling.html">piddling</a>, <a href="../piffling.html">piffling</a>, <a href="../petty.html">petty</a>, <a href="../picayune.html">picayune</a>] </li> <li>obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" [syn: <a href="../banal.html">banal</a>, <a href="../commonplace.html">commonplace</a>] </li> <li>of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [syn: <a href="../superficial.html">superficial</a>] </li> <li>concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind" </li> <li>not large enough to consider or notice [syn: <a href="../insignificant.html">insignificant</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../trivial.html">http://www.word.sc/trivial</a>

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