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Adjective: trivial  tree-vee-ul
  1. (informal) small and of little importance
    "a trivial sum of money"
    - fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune [N. Amer]
     
  2. Of little substance or significance
    "only trivial objections"
    - superficial
     
  3. Concerned with trivialities
    "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

See also: frivolous, insignificant, trivia, triviality, trivialize, trivially, unimportant

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