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7-letter words (2 found)

TRIVIAL,VITRAIL,

6-letter words (1 found)

TRIVIA,

5-letter words (7 found)

LIART,LITAI,RIVAL,TRAIL,TRIAL,VIRAL,VITAL,

4-letter words (26 found)

AIRT,ALIT,ARIL,ARTI,ILIA,LAIR,LARI,LATI,LIAR,LIRA,LIRI,RAIL,RAIT,RIAL,RIVA,TAIL,TALI,TIAR,TIRL,VAIL,VAIR,VALI,VIAL,VIRL,VITA,VRIL,

3-letter words (22 found)

AIL,AIR,AIT,ALT,ART,ITA,LAR,LAT,LAV,LIT,RAI,RAT,RAV,RIA,RIT,TAI,TAR,TAV,TIL,VAR,VAT,VIA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AI,AL,AR,AT,IT,LA,LI,TA,TI,

You can make 67 words from trivial according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of trivial

trivial

Alternative forms

  • triviall (obsolete)

Etymology

  • From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
  • From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/

Adjective

trivial (comparative more trivial, superlative most trivial)

  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
  3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  4. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  5. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  6. (mathematics) Self-evident.
  7. Pertaining to the trivium.
  8. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

Synonyms

  • (of little significance): ignorable, negligible, trifling

Antonyms

  • nontrivial
  • important
  • significant
  • radical
  • fundamental

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

trivial (plural trivials)

  1. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

References

Further reading

  • “trivial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “trivial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • trivial in Britannica Dictionary
  • trivial in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
  • trivial in Ozdic collocation dictionary
  • trivial in WordReference English Collocations

Anagrams

  • vitrail

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [tɾi.βiˈal]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [tɾi.viˈal]

Adjective

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural trivials)

  1. trivial

Further reading

  • “trivial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin triviālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁi.vjal/
  • Homophones: triviale, triviales

Adjective

trivial (feminine triviale, masculine plural triviaux, feminine plural triviales)

  1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)
  2. ordinary, mundane, commonplace
    Synonyms: banal, commun, ordinaire
    Antonyms: nouveau, singulier, rare
  3. inelegant, unrefined (especially of a person's language)
    Synonym: inélégant
    Antonym: raffiné
  4. crass, crude, vulgar, obscene (words, language, behavior, etc.)
    Synonyms: brut, grossier, obscène
    Antonyms: courtois, gentil, poli, subtil

Derived terms

  • nom trivial

Further reading

  • “trivial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • livrait, vitrail

Galician

Adjective

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

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Derived terms

  • trivialidade
  • trivialmente

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French trivial, from Latin triviālis (“common”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁiviˈaːl/
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

trivial (strong nominative masculine singular trivialer, comparative trivialer, superlative am trivialsten)

  1. trivial (common, easy, obvious)

Declension

Related terms

  • trivialisieren
  • Trivialität

Further reading

  • “trivial” in Duden online
  • “trivial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Piedmontese

Adjective

trivial

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: tri‧vi‧al

Adjective

trivial m or f (plural triviais)

  1. trivial

Derived terms

  • trivialidade
  • trivializar
  • trivialmente

Noun

trivial m (plural triviais)

  1. (informal) a simple everyday meal

Further reading

  • “trivial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trivial.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tri.viˈal/

Adjective

trivial m or n (feminine singular trivială, masculine plural triviali, feminine and neuter plural triviale)

  1. common, ordinary
    Synonyms: de rând, comun, obișnuit, ordinar
  2. obscene, indecent
    Synonyms: obscen, indecent

Declension

Derived terms

  • trivialitate
  • trivializa
  • netrivial

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾiˈbjal/ [t̪ɾiˈβ̞jal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: tri‧vial

Adjective

trivial m or f (masculine and feminine plural triviales)

  1. trivial

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “trivial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Adjective

trivial (comparative trivialare, superlative trivialast)

  1. trivial

Declension

Derived terms

  • trivialnamn (“common name”)

References

  • trivial in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • trivial in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • trivial in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org