Definition of trivial

What does the word trivial mean?

• part of speech: adjective

  Of small value or importance, trifling, as t. matters, a t. loss (of something t.), raised t. objections; (of person) trifling, shallow, lacking ability or moral qualities; commonplace, humdrum, as the t. round (of daily life &c.); (Bot., Zool., of name) popular, not scientific, also, specific opp. to generic. Hence or cogn. Trivialism (2,4), triviality, trivial-ness, nn., trivialize (3) v.t., trivially adv. [French]