trivialadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtrɪvɪəl/, U.S.

/ˈtrɪviəl/

Etymology: < Latin triviālis, in sense A. 5 below, < trivium (see trivium n.); compare French trivial (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.).

A. adj.

I. Senses relating to the number three.

1. Belonging to the trivium n. of medieval university studies.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > trivium or quadrivium

quadrivial?1440

trivial?a1475

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 333 Sche..hade noble auditors and disciples, to whom sche redde the arte trivialle [L. trivium legeret].

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 12 Hath..thrise rehears'd them in his Triuiall [printed Triniall] floare.

1797 tr. in R. Townson Trav. Hungary iv. 173 The Protestants may likewise retain their trivial and grammar schools.

1904 W. P. Ker Dark Ages 27 Plato does not allow the mediæval classification of Dialectic as a Trivial Art along with Grammar and Rhetoric.

†2. Threefold, triple. Obsolete. rare.Cf. late Latin use of triviālis (Arnobius).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > condition of being threefold > [adjective]

thrilec725

threefoldc1000

treblec1374

trinec1386

thrinfalda1400

tripartitec1420

triparted1429

ternaryc1430

trinary1474

triplicate?a1475

trivial?a1475

triplage1526

threefolded1528

triple1552

treblefold1561

trifold1578

trinal1590

tripart1592

ternal1599

triplexa1616

tergeminous1656

ternarious1656

triplasian1678

triplet1697

ternarian1732

triangular1812

Trinitarian1812

triplasic1864

three-body1936

triplexed1974

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 25 Giraldus of Wales, which describede Topographie of Irlonde, Itinerary of Wales, and the Lyfe of Kinge Henry the Secunde, under a triuialle distinccion [L. sub triplici distinctione].

†3. Placed where three roads meet. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective]

three-wayeda1382

quadrivial1480

forked1525

two-way1571

three-way1587

two-hand1607

trivial1614

biviousa1644

bisected1794

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 129 Their other sacred Triuiall Statues.

4. Zoology. Belonging to the trivium n. of an echinoderm.

ΚΠ

1891 in Cent. Dict.

II. Senses relating to the commonplace or inconsequential; not specific or systematic.

5. Such as may be met with anywhere; common, commonplace, ordinary, everyday, familiar, trite. Now rare (passing into A. 6).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace

quotidian1430

trite1548

beaten1587

trivial1589

threadbare1598

protrite1604

prose1606

commonplace1616

everyday1628

prostitute1631

prosaical1699

tritical1709

prosaic1729

tritish1779

hack1821

rum-ti-tum1832

unspecial1838

banal1840

commonplacish1847

prosy1849

inventionless1887

thread-worn1888

1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **3 A few of our triuiall translators.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. v. 306 It is triuiall in the Schooles. Nothing is in the vnderstanding that was not first in the sense.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing ii. 16 The most ordinary and trivial Phænomena in nature.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 44 To explain the manner of this by a trivial Observation.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. i. 4 The trivial round, the common task.

1895 A. R. MacEwen Life & Lett. J. Cairns 161 This..is now the trivial definition and ground principle.

a. Of small account, little esteemed, paltry, poor; trifling, inconsiderable, unimportant, slight.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial

eathlyc890

lighteOE

littleOE

small?c1225

singlec1449

easy1474

triflous1509

naughty1526

slender1530

slight1548

shrimpish1549

slipper1567

truanta1572

toyous1581

trivious1583

mean1585

silly1587

nicea1594

puny?1594

puisne1598

pusill1599

whindling1601

sapless1602

non-significant1603

poor1603

unsignificant1603

flea-bite1605

perishing1605

lank1607

weightless1610

fonda1616

penny farthing1615

triviala1616

unweighty1621

transitory1637

twattling1651

inconsiderate1655

unserious1655

nugal1656

small drink1656

slighty1662

minute1668

paddling1679

snitling1682

retail1697

Lilliputian1726

vain1731

rattletrap1760

peppercornish1762

peppercorn1791

underling1804

venial1806

lightweight1809

floccinaucical1826

small-bore1833

minified1837

trantlum1838

piffling1848

tea-tabular1855

potty1860

whipping-snapping1861

tea-gardeny1862

quiddling1863

twaddling1863

fidgeting1865

penny ante1865

feather-weighted1870

jerkwater1877

midget1879

mimsy1880

shirttail1881

two-by-four1885

footle1894

skittery1905

footery1929

Mickey Mouse1931

chickenshit1934

minoritized1945

marginal1952

marginalized1961

tea-party1961

little league1962

marginalizing1977

minnowy1991

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 241 We haue but triuiall argument, More then mistrust, that shewes him worthy death.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 54 To demurre to the Truth of his so frequent Miracles, being so Redundant in working them on Triviall Occasions.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 94 They..are ready..to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very trivial value.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 251 The offence..could..be passed by as altogether trivial.

b. Mathematics. Of no consequence or interest, e.g. because equal to zero; satisfying a given relation on a set with every member of the set; spec. applied to a subgroup of a given group that either contains only the identity element or is identical with the given group.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets > in abstract algebra > of groups

reducible1585

transitive1861

primitive1888

simple1888

special1888

cyclic1889

intransitive1889

solvable1892

finite1893

perfect1898

Abelian1900

soluble1902

proper1906

trivial1915

equivalent1948

hypercyclic1968

sporadic1968

1915 R. D. Carmichael Diophantine Anal. ii. 28 We have thus established the fact that Eq. (2) has at least one integral solution which is not trivial.

1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 135 The reflexive property is trivial (every group is isomorphic to itself by the identity transformation).

1949 S. Kravetz tr. H. Zassenhaus Theory of Groups i. 10  and e are trivial subgroups of .

1953 W. Ledermann Introd. Theory Finite Groups ii. 31 Every group G has two trivial or improper subgroups namely, G itself and the group which consists of the unit element by itself (I² = I); all other subgroups are called proper subgroups.

1957 L. Fox Numerical Solution Two-point Boundary Probl. vii. 192 If y vanishes at x = 1 then all the derivatives, if finite, are also zero, giving the trivial solution.

1971 G. Glauberman in M. B. Powell & G. Higman Finite Simple Groups i. 35 These subgroups..will therefore be non-trivial when P is not trivial.

1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 508 Strong spectrality is trivial since A(K) = A.

7. Natural History. Applied to names of animals and plants:

a. to a Latin name added to the generic name to distinguish the species: = specific adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > of a name: specific

trivial1759

1759 B. Stillingfleet Misc. Tracts Pref. p. xv In the last edition of his Systema naturæ he [Linnæus] has mentioned above 1500 species of insects, has..given them classical, generical, and trivial or specifical names.

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) I. 181 Scolytus destructor, whose trivial name well characterises the..severity of its ravages.

1902 C. D. Sherborn Index Animalium p. vii All trivial names are entered as if they were masculine, e.g. nigra will be found under niger.

b. to a name in common as distinct from scientific use: Popular, vernacular, vulgar.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > of a name: popular

trivial1815

1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 193 The following List of English Trivial Names will be found useful to purchasers of shells, as dealers most frequently adopt them.

1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 194 Trivial Names. Linnæan Name. Lepas. English Name. Acorn Shell.

1901 Spectator 17 Aug. 216/1 The trivial name for the whole family of terns..is ‘sea-swallow’.

8. Chemistry. Of the name of a chemical species: not systematic; often used in preference to the systematic name for reasons of convenience or tradition, as neohexane (systematic name 2,2,dimethylbutane) or formaldehyde (systematic name methanal). Cf. systematic adj. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > naming conventions > [adjective] > of the names of a chemical compound

systematic1790

hydrogen1868

trivial1892

1892 Nature 19 May 58/1 The extent to which familiar trivial names shall be retained in the official system [of chemical nomenclature] is therefore a matter of great importance.

1951 Chem. & Engin. News 23 July 3036/2 The alchemists used fanciful names; we would class them as ‘trivial’ names today.

1979 Clark & McKervey in Barton & Ollis Comprehensive Org. Chem. I. ii. 40 Several of these trivial names are still universally accepted... However, trivial names for alkanes containing multiple branching can become cumbersome.

B. n.

†1. = trivium n. 1 (in quot. ?a1475 transferred). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > trivium

trivial?a1475

trivials1481

trivium1804

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 5 The triuialle [L. trivium] of the vertues theologicalle and quadriuialle of the cardinalle vertues.

2. plural. The three subjects of study constituting the trivium n. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > trivium

trivial?a1475

trivials1481

trivium1804

1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute sig. e6^v Light sciences callid trynals, as be gramer logyk and rethorik in comparison of the quadryiuall sciences.

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 511 A poore maister of arte..had lytell parte Of the quatriuials Nor yet of triuials.

1630 J. Hales Let. conc. Weapon-salve 23 Nov. 282 in Golden Remains (1673) In the Trivials and Quadrivials, as old Clerks were wont to name them.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 181 Peter Heylyn..profiting in Trivials to a miracle, especially in Poetry.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 92 Edward Seymour..was educated in Trivials, and partly in Quadrivials in Oxon.

1886 S. S. Lawrie Rise & Constit. Universities 61 Practically under the name of dialectic, logic was a quadrivial study.

3. A trivial matter; a triviality, trifle. Usually plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

child's gamec1380

motec1390

mitec1400

child's playc1405

trufferyc1429

toyc1450

curiosity1474

fly-winga1500

neither mass nor matins1528

boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

nincety-fincety1566

mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

minuity1612

feathera1616

fillip1621

rattle1622

fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

rush candle1628

punctilio1631

rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

emptiness1646

fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 288 'Tis scarce worth disputing..about such trivials.

1886 M. F. Tupper My Life as Author 334 Take these twelve as samples of many more such trivials.

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4. Mathematics. ‘A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

Compounds

trivial-minded adj. (whence trivial-mindedness).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun]

lightnessc1384

levity1564

gaiety1573

light-mindedness?1574

shallowness1590

toyishness1595

lightheadedness1645

ludicrousness1664

unseriousness1672

flightiness1747

flirtishness1750

trivial-mindedness1872

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective]

lightlyeOE

lightOE

lightsomea1425

flying1509

light-minded?1529

tickle or light of the sear?1530

giddya1547

light-headed1549

gidded1563

giddish1566

fling-brained1570

tickle-headed1583

toyish1584

shallow1594

leger1598

corky1601

barmy1602

airy1609

unfirma1616

unballast1622

cork-brained1630

unballasted1644

kickshawa1655

unserious1655

unstudious1663

flirtishc1665

caper-witteda1670

shatter-headedc1686

corky-brained1699

flea-lugged1724

halokit1724

shatter-brained1727

scattered-brained1747

shatter-witted1775

flippant1791

butterfly-brained1796

scatter-brained1804

gossamer1806

shandy-pated1806

shattery1820

barmy-brained1823

papilionaceous1832

flirtatious1834

flirty1840

Micawberish1859

scatterheaded1867

flibberty-gibberty1879

thistledown1897

shatter-pated1901

trivial-minded1905

scattery1924

fizgig1928

ditzy1979

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 161 We should..have patience with their trivial-mindedness.

1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. 383 Even in the most trivial-minded [I] was able to find some common ground of interest.

Draft additions 1993

Trivial Pursuit n. a proprietary name for a board game first marketed in Canada in 1982, in which players advance by correctly answering general-knowledge questions from one of six subject areas, the subject being determined by the colour of the space on which a player lands.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others

quek1376

quek-board1477

draughtsc1540

goose1597

mancala1687

pachisi1801

Chinese chequers1840

go1840

shogi1858

wari1866

wei ch'i1871

gobang1875

crokinole1885

Kono1895

salta1901

Snakes and Ladders1907

pegity1925

oware1929

monopoly1934

Scrabble1950

morabaraba1953

Chutes and Ladders1955

pentominos1975

Trivial Pursuit1982

1982 Gazette (Montreal) 12 Feb. b5/4 ‘What's great about Trivial Pursuit is the variety of questions,’ says store salesman Les Gray. ‘There are easy ones to keep you going, some incredibly impossible ones, and plenty of tricky ones.’

1982 Trade Marks Jrnl. (Ottawa) 3 Mar. 46/2 Trivial Pursuit... Board Game. Proposed use in Canada.

1983 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Feb. tm176/2 Trivial Pursuit... For equipment including a playing board, die, rules of play, question and answer cards..sold as a unit for playing a board game.

1984 Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 Aug. 2131/2 Trivial Pursuit... Toys, games..and playthings... 26th January, 1983.

1985 New Yorker 23 Dec. 38/3 Ed, involved in a game of Trivial Pursuit in his oldest daughter's room, would see Carol sail past the door, her quick step silent.

1988 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Sept. 7/2 Even the weaker pupils found some of the short Trivial-Pursuit-type questions insulting.

1989 Lit. Rev. Dec. 48/1 The first hint of this being ‘The Information Decade’ came when my aunt produced ‘Trivial Pursuit’. It kept us mildly amused for one Boxing Day afternoon; most of the answers seemed to be Elvis Presley.

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单词	trivial
释义	trivialadj.n. Brit. /ˈtrɪvɪəl/, U.S. /ˈtrɪviəl/ Etymology: < Latin triviālis, in sense A. 5 below, < trivium (see trivium n.); compare French trivial (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.). A. adj. I. Senses relating to the number three. 1. Belonging to the trivium n. of medieval university studies. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > trivium or quadrivium quadrivial?1440 trivial?a1475 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 333 Sche..hade noble auditors and disciples, to whom sche redde the arte trivialle [L. trivium legeret]. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 12 Hath..thrise rehears'd them in his Triuiall [printed Triniall] floare. 1797 tr. in R. Townson Trav. Hungary iv. 173 The Protestants may likewise retain their trivial and grammar schools. 1904 W. P. Ker Dark Ages 27 Plato does not allow the mediæval classification of Dialectic as a Trivial Art along with Grammar and Rhetoric. †2. Threefold, triple. Obsolete. rare.Cf. late Latin use of triviālis (Arnobius). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > condition of being threefold > [adjective] thrilec725 threefoldc1000 treblec1374 trinec1386 thrinfalda1400 tripartitec1420 triparted1429 ternaryc1430 trinary1474 triplicate?a1475 trivial?a1475 triplage1526 threefolded1528 triple1552 treblefold1561 trifold1578 trinal1590 tripart1592 ternal1599 triplexa1616 tergeminous1656 ternarious1656 triplasian1678 triplet1697 ternarian1732 triangular1812 Trinitarian1812 triplasic1864 three-body1936 triplexed1974 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 25 Giraldus of Wales, which describede Topographie of Irlonde, Itinerary of Wales, and the Lyfe of Kinge Henry the Secunde, under a triuialle distinccion [L. sub triplici distinctione]. †3. Placed where three roads meet. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective] three-wayeda1382 quadrivial1480 forked1525 two-way1571 three-way1587 two-hand1607 trivial1614 biviousa1644 bisected1794 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 129 Their other sacred Triuiall Statues. 4. Zoology. Belonging to the trivium n. of an echinoderm. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. II. Senses relating to the commonplace or inconsequential; not specific or systematic. 5. Such as may be met with anywhere; common, commonplace, ordinary, everyday, familiar, trite. Now rare (passing into A. 6). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace quotidian1430 trite1548 beaten1587 trivial1589 threadbare1598 protrite1604 prose1606 commonplace1616 everyday1628 prostitute1631 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 tritish1779 hack1821 rum-ti-tum1832 unspecial1838 banal1840 commonplacish1847 prosy1849 inventionless1887 thread-worn1888 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. *3 A few of our triuiall translators. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God* viii. v. 306 It is triuiall in the Schooles. Nothing is in the vnderstanding that was not first in the sense. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing ii. 16 The most ordinary and trivial Phænomena in nature. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 44 To explain the manner of this by a trivial Observation. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. i. 4 The trivial round, the common task. 1895 A. R. MacEwen Life & Lett. J. Cairns 161 This..is now the trivial definition and ground principle. 6. a. Of small account, little esteemed, paltry, poor; trifling, inconsiderable, unimportant, slight. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial eathlyc890 lighteOE littleOE small?c1225 singlec1449 easy1474 triflous1509 naughty1526 slender1530 slight1548 shrimpish1549 slipper1567 truanta1572 toyous1581 trivious1583 mean1585 silly1587 nicea1594 puny?1594 puisne1598 pusill1599 whindling1601 sapless1602 non-significant1603 poor1603 unsignificant1603 flea-bite1605 perishing1605 lank1607 weightless1610 fonda1616 penny farthing1615 triviala1616 unweighty1621 transitory1637 twattling1651 inconsiderate1655 unserious1655 nugal1656 small drink1656 slighty1662 minute1668 paddling1679 snitling1682 retail1697 Lilliputian1726 vain1731 rattletrap1760 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 underling1804 venial1806 lightweight1809 floccinaucical1826 small-bore1833 minified1837 trantlum1838 piffling1848 tea-tabular1855 potty1860 whipping-snapping1861 tea-gardeny1862 quiddling1863 twaddling1863 fidgeting1865 penny ante1865 feather-weighted1870 jerkwater1877 midget1879 mimsy1880 shirttail1881 two-by-four1885 footle1894 skittery1905 footery1929 Mickey Mouse1931 chickenshit1934 minoritized1945 marginal1952 marginalized1961 tea-party1961 little league1962 marginalizing1977 minnowy1991 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 241 We haue but triuiall argument, More then mistrust, that shewes him worthy death. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 54 To demurre to the Truth of his so frequent Miracles, being so Redundant in working them on Triviall Occasions. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 94 They..are ready..to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very trivial value. View more context for this quotation 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 251 The offence..could..be passed by as altogether trivial. b. Mathematics. Of no consequence or interest, e.g. because equal to zero; satisfying a given relation on a set with every member of the set; spec. applied to a subgroup of a given group that either contains only the identity element or is identical with the given group. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets > in abstract algebra > of groups reducible1585 transitive1861 primitive1888 simple1888 special1888 cyclic1889 intransitive1889 solvable1892 finite1893 perfect1898 Abelian1900 soluble1902 proper1906 trivial1915 equivalent1948 hypercyclic1968 sporadic1968 1915 R. D. Carmichael Diophantine Anal. ii. 28 We have thus established the fact that Eq. (2) has at least one integral solution which is not trivial. 1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 135 The reflexive property is trivial (every group is isomorphic to itself by the identity transformation). 1949 S. Kravetz tr. H. Zassenhaus Theory of Groups i. 10  and e are trivial subgroups of . 1953 W. Ledermann Introd. Theory Finite Groups ii. 31 Every group G has two trivial or improper subgroups namely, G itself and the group which consists of the unit element by itself (I² = I); all other subgroups are called proper subgroups. 1957 L. Fox Numerical Solution Two-point Boundary Probl. vii. 192 If y vanishes at x = 1 then all the derivatives, if finite, are also zero, giving the trivial solution. 1971 G. Glauberman in M. B. Powell & G. Higman Finite Simple Groups i. 35 These subgroups..will therefore be non-trivial when P is not trivial. 1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 508 Strong spectrality is trivial since A(K) = A. 7. Natural History. Applied to names of animals and plants: a. to a Latin name added to the generic name to distinguish the species: = specific adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > of a name: specific trivial1759 1759 B. Stillingfleet Misc. Tracts Pref. p. xv In the last edition of his Systema naturæ he [Linnæus] has mentioned above 1500 species of insects, has..given them classical, generical, and trivial or specifical names. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) I. 181 Scolytus destructor, whose trivial name well characterises the..severity of its ravages. 1902 C. D. Sherborn Index Animalium p. vii All trivial names are entered as if they were masculine, e.g. nigra will be found under niger. b. to a name in common as distinct from scientific use: Popular, vernacular, vulgar. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > of a name: popular trivial1815 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 193 The following List of English Trivial Names will be found useful to purchasers of shells, as dealers most frequently adopt them. 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 194 Trivial Names. Linnæan Name. Lepas. English Name. Acorn Shell. 1901 Spectator 17 Aug. 216/1 The trivial name for the whole family of terns..is ‘sea-swallow’. 8. Chemistry. Of the name of a chemical species: not systematic; often used in preference to the systematic name for reasons of convenience or tradition, as neohexane (systematic name 2,2,dimethylbutane) or formaldehyde (systematic name methanal). Cf. systematic adj. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > naming conventions > [adjective] > of the names of a chemical compound systematic1790 hydrogen1868 trivial1892 1892 Nature 19 May 58/1 The extent to which familiar trivial names shall be retained in the official system [of chemical nomenclature] is therefore a matter of great importance. 1951 Chem. & Engin. News 23 July 3036/2 The alchemists used fanciful names; we would class them as ‘trivial’ names today. 1979 Clark & McKervey in Barton & Ollis Comprehensive Org. Chem. I. ii. 40 Several of these trivial names are still universally accepted... However, trivial names for alkanes containing multiple branching can become cumbersome. B. n. †1. = trivium n. 1 (in quot. ?a1475 transferred). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > trivium trivial?a1475 trivials1481 trivium1804 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 5 The triuialle [L. trivium] of the vertues theologicalle and quadriuialle of the cardinalle vertues. 2. plural. The three subjects of study constituting the trivium n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > trivium trivial?a1475 trivials1481 trivium1804 1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute sig. e6^v Light sciences callid trynals, as be gramer logyk and rethorik in comparison of the quadryiuall sciences. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 511 A poore maister of arte..had lytell parte Of the quatriuials Nor yet of triuials. 1630 J. Hales Let. conc. Weapon-salve 23 Nov. 282 in Golden Remains (1673) In the Trivials and Quadrivials, as old Clerks were wont to name them. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 181 Peter Heylyn..profiting in Trivials to a miracle, especially in Poetry. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 92 Edward Seymour..was educated in Trivials, and partly in Quadrivials in Oxon. 1886 S. S. Lawrie Rise & Constit. Universities 61 Practically under the name of dialectic, logic was a quadrivial study. 3. A trivial matter; a triviality, trifle. Usually plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 288 'Tis scarce worth disputing..about such trivials. 1886 M. F. Tupper My Life as Author 334 Take these twelve as samples of many more such trivials. Categories » 4. Mathematics. ‘A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). Compounds trivial-minded adj. (whence trivial-mindedness). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] lightnessc1384 levity1564 gaiety1573 light-mindedness?1574 shallowness1590 toyishness1595 lightheadedness1645 ludicrousness1664 unseriousness1672 flightiness1747 flirtishness1750 trivial-mindedness1872 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective] lightlyeOE lightOE lightsomea1425 flying1509 light-minded?1529 tickle or light of the sear?1530 giddya1547 light-headed1549 gidded1563 giddish1566 fling-brained1570 tickle-headed1583 toyish1584 shallow1594 leger1598 corky1601 barmy1602 airy1609 unfirma1616 unballast1622 cork-brained1630 unballasted1644 kickshawa1655 unserious1655 unstudious1663 flirtishc1665 caper-witteda1670 shatter-headedc1686 corky-brained1699 flea-lugged1724 halokit1724 shatter-brained1727 scattered-brained1747 shatter-witted1775 flippant1791 butterfly-brained1796 scatter-brained1804 gossamer1806 shandy-pated1806 shattery1820 barmy-brained1823 papilionaceous1832 flirtatious1834 flirty1840 Micawberish1859 scatterheaded1867 flibberty-gibberty1879 thistledown1897 shatter-pated1901 trivial-minded1905 scattery1924 fizgig1928 ditzy1979 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 161 We should..have patience with their trivial-mindedness. 1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. 383 Even in the most trivial-minded [I] was able to find some common ground of interest. Draft additions 1993 Trivial Pursuit n. a proprietary name for a board game first marketed in Canada in 1982, in which players advance by correctly answering general-knowledge questions from one of six subject areas, the subject being determined by the colour of the space on which a player lands. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others quek1376 quek-board1477 draughtsc1540 goose1597 mancala1687 pachisi1801 Chinese chequers1840 go1840 shogi1858 wari1866 wei ch'i1871 gobang1875 crokinole1885 Kono1895 salta1901 Snakes and Ladders1907 pegity1925 oware1929 monopoly1934 Scrabble1950 morabaraba1953 Chutes and Ladders1955 pentominos1975 Trivial Pursuit1982 1982 Gazette (Montreal) 12 Feb. b5/4 ‘What's great about Trivial Pursuit is the variety of questions,’ says store salesman Les Gray. ‘There are easy ones to keep you going, some incredibly impossible ones, and plenty of tricky ones.’ 1982 Trade Marks Jrnl. (Ottawa) 3 Mar. 46/2 Trivial Pursuit... Board Game. Proposed use in Canada. 1983 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Feb. tm176/2 Trivial Pursuit... For equipment including a playing board, die, rules of play, question and answer cards..sold as a unit for playing a board game. 1984 Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 Aug. 2131/2 Trivial Pursuit... Toys, games..and playthings... 26th January, 1983. 1985 New Yorker 23 Dec. 38/3 Ed, involved in a game of Trivial Pursuit in his oldest daughter's room, would see Carol sail past the door, her quick step silent. 1988 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Sept. 7/2 Even the weaker pupils found some of the short Trivial-Pursuit-type questions insulting. 1989 Lit. Rev. Dec. 48/1 The first hint of this being ‘The Information Decade’ came when my aunt produced ‘Trivial Pursuit’. It kept us mildly amused for one Boxing Day afternoon; most of the answers seemed to be Elvis Presley. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1475
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