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trivial
adjective as in not important
Strongest matches
commonplace, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trite, unimportant
Weak matches
atomic, beside the point, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, inappreciable, inconsiderable, little, meager, mean, microscopic, minute, momentary, nonessential, nugatory, of no account, piddling, puny, scanty, skin-deep, slight, small, trifling, valueless, vanishing, worthless
Example Sentences
That might sound trivial, but traveling is stressful enough.
Subprime mortgage lending was still a trivial fraction of the U.S. credit markets—a few tens of billions in loans each year—but its existence made sense, even to Steve Eisman.
She called the BBC's findings "disturbing", adding: "There's enormous risks. It's not a trivial condition."
The location of the grounding line may sound trivial, but it is crucial to determine whether the change was truly unprecedented.
More than an hour passes before “Kissinger” plays a Nixon tape, and then it’s a trivial comment about Kissinger’s social life by presidential secretary Rose Mary Woods.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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