Thesaurus / trivial
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We are not talking about a trivial difference over policy — or even a major one.
STOP TRYING TO SAVE THE GOP. IT’S HOPELESS.JENNIFER RUBINFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLeaving your camera off for a call you don’t need to be visible for makes for a small — but not trivial — savings in carbon emissions.
REMOTE WORKERS ARE GREENER, BUT THEIR TECH STILL HAS A REAL CARBON COSTDEVIN COLDEWEYJANUARY 20, 2021TECHCRUNCHIt just has to be a non-trivial cost for someone who was on the margin.
HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY CARE ABOUT CHILDREN? (EP. 447)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 14, 2021FREAKONOMICSThat would be so regardless of how much the aliens shattered the beliefs people held about their own societies, whose beloved differences would look trivial by comparison to those with the Little Green Men.
WHY A UNIVERSAL SOCIETY IS UNATTAINABLE - ISSUE 95: ESCAPEMARK W. MOFFETTJANUARY 14, 2021NAUTILUSThe axion has all the right properties, which is not trivial at all.
A PRODIGY WHO CRACKED OPEN THE COSMOSCLAUDIA DREIFUSJANUARY 12, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEWhile this sounds like a trivial change, it might have affected this year’s playoffs — and could very well bring new programs into the playoff.
THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF COMMITTEE IS ANSWERING THE WRONG QUESTIONZACH WISSNER-GROSSJANUARY 8, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTWhat a human brain does is trivial compared to its engineering.
AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN NEUROSCIENCE - ISSUE 94: EVOLVINGGRIGORI GUITCHOUNTSDECEMBER 30, 2020NAUTILUSAlbeit a trivial example, the AR cloud represents an entirely non-trivial new way of managing how we organize the world’s information.
HOW A SOFTWARE MAP OF THE ENTIRE PLANET COULD CHANGE THE WORLD FOREVERAARON FRANKDECEMBER 27, 2020SINGULARITY HUB Looking back, she said she found such requests trivial but used by some men in their dealings with women.
GLORIA RICHARDSON PUSHED ASIDE A BAYONET AS A ’60S CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. NOW 98, SHE WANTS THE NEW GENERATION TO FIGHT ON.KEITH L. ALEXANDERDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTNever did events of the utmost magnitude hinge on incidents so trivial to the community at large.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO TRIVIAL
- diminutive
- feeble
- fragile
- frail
- half-pint
- inconsequential
- inferior
- infirm
- little
- measly
- minor
- niggling
- nothing
- paltry
- peanut
- peewee
- petty
- picayune
- piddling
- pint-sized
- runt
- shrimp
- small time
- small-fry
- stunted
- tiny
- trifling
- trivial
- two-bit
- unconsequential
- underfed
- undersized
- undeveloped
- unsound
- unsubstantial
- weak
- weakly
- wee
- worthless
- zero
- zilch
- accessory
- alternate
- auxiliary
- backup
- bush-league
- collateral
- consequential
- contingent
- dependent
- dinky
- extra
- inconsiderable
- inferior
- insignificant
- lesser
- lower
- minor
- minor-league
- petty
- relief
- reserve
- second
- second-rate
- small
- small-fry
- small-time
- subject
- subservient
- subsidiary
- substract
- supporting
- tributary
- trivial
- under
- unimportant
- absurd
- asinine
- batty
- crazy
- daft
- double talk
- doublespeak
- fatuous
- flaky
- foolish
- idiotic
- illogical
- imbecilic
- inane
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- insignificant
- irrational
- ludicrous
- mad
- mindless
- moronic
- nonsensical
- nutty
- pointless
- purportless
- purposeless
- ridiculous
- simple
- stupid
- trivial
- unimportant
- unintelligent
- unmeaning
- unreasonable
- unsound
- unwise
- wacky
- without rhyme or reason
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