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trivially, adv.|ˈtrɪvɪəlɪ|
[f. trivial a. + -ly2.]
In a trivial manner.
1. Commonly, ordinarily, familiarly; in a commonplace or trite way. Now rare or Obs.
1625Bacon Ess., Greatn. Kingd. (Arb.) 473 Neither is Money the Sinewes of Warre (as it is triuially said). 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 17 He is the best preacher, saith Luther, that delivereth himself vulgarly, plainly, trivially. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 211 He thinks it more unhappiness..to die with a divided carcase, then with a whole one:..the whole body being not usually so trivially exposed to scorn, as the head, when divided from the body. 1818Southey in Q. Rev. XVIII. 9 Leah and Rachel were..used almost as trivially for examples by poets as by theologians.
2. a. In a trifling, slight, or paltry way; in the way of trifling, frivolously.
1649J. H. Motion to Parl. Adv. Learn. 26 Their youth so trivially spent. 1710Steele Tatler No. 207 ⁋2 Minds which are not trivially disposed. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. viii. (1883) 161 You speak trivially, but not unwisely.
b. Chiefly Math. In an inconsequential or uninteresting way.
1941Birkhoff & MacLane Survey Mod. Algebra vi. 148 The conclusion is trivially true. 1956E. M. Patterson Topology ii. 35 Conditions (T.1) and (T.3) are satisfied trivially. 1977Language LIII. 353 But it is trivially true that all features characteristic of creole speech will be removed if decreolization is carried far enough. |