[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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