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

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