[QUOTE] [B][SIZE=4]"trivial"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=1] [*](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: [URL=http://www.word.sc/fiddling]fiddling[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/footling]footling[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/lilliputian]lilliputian[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/little]little[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/Mickey Mouse]Mickey Mouse[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/niggling]niggling[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/piddling]piddling[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/piffling]piffling[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/petty]petty[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/picayune]picayune[/URL]] [*]obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/banal]banal[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/commonplace]commonplace[/URL]] [*]of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/superficial]superficial[/URL]] [*]concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind" [*]not large enough to consider or notice [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/insignificant]insignificant[/URL]] [/LIST] Source: [URL=http://www.word.sc/trivial]http://www.word.sc/trivial[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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