trivial

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. obsolete
    — Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
形容词 adj.
  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
    — "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
    — As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
  3. Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
  4. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  5. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  6. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  7. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.; Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
  8. Self-evident.
  9. Pertaining to the trivium.
  10. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

词形变化

more trivial comparative most trivial superlative triviall alternative,obsolete trivials plural triviall alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

反义词
nontrivial important significant radical fundamental
衍生词
isotrivial non-trivial nontrivial quasitrivial semitrivial supertrivial trivia trivial absolute value trivial functional dependency trivial group trivialisation trivialise trivialism trivialist trivialistic triviality trivialization trivialize trivially trivial name trivialness trivial solution trivial topology untrivial

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*tréyes
* 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”).
词源 2
PIE word
*tréyes
* 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”).
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