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trivial

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trivial in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. (informal) 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"; "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"
    fiddling  footling  lilliputian  little  niggling  piddling  piffling  petty  picayune  trivial 
  2. of little substance or significance
    "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
    superficial  trivial 
  3. concerned with trivialities
    "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
    trivial 
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