noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fiddle
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
triviality
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌtɹɪviˈæləti/
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CMU ARPABET: T R IH2 V IY0 AE1 L AH0 T IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something which is trivial or unimportant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bagatelle, bag of shells, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, flamfew, flyspeck, minuity, niff-naff, picayune, scuddick, sop, ticky-tack, toy, trick, trifle, triviality, whiffle, white chip
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
something of small importance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trivia, trifle, small beer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: object, physical object
Narrower terms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
noun
Meaning 4
the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pettiness, slightness, puniness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unimportance
Narrower terms: joke
noun
Meaning 5
a detail that is considered insignificant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: technicality, trifle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: detail, item, point
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English trivial Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English triviality From trivial + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: tyhjänpäiväisyys — quality of being trivial
- Finnish: yhdentekevyys — quality of being trivial
- French: trivialité — quality of being trivial
- Māori: hanganoatanga — quality of being trivial
- Polish: bagatelność — quality of being trivial
- Polish: błahość — quality of being trivial
- Polish: trywialność — quality of being trivial
- Russian: тривиа́льность (triviálʹnostʹ) — quality of being trivial
- Russian: бана́льность (banálʹnostʹ) — quality of being trivial
- Russian: малова́жность (malovážnostʹ) — quality of being trivial
- Russian: мелкоте́мье (melkotémʹje) — quality of being trivial
- Spanish: trivialidad — quality of being trivial
- Tamil: அற்பம் (aṟpam) — quality of being trivial
- Finnish: jonninjoutavuus — something trivial
- Finnish: tyhjänpäiväisyys — something trivial
- Galician: parvada — something trivial
- Polish: bagatela — something trivial
- Spanish: ñanga — something trivial
- Spanish: trivialidad — something trivial
- Tamil: அற்பம் (aṟpam) — something trivial