triviallyadv.
/ˈtrɪvɪəli/, U.S. /ˈtrɪviəli/ In a trivial manner.
1. Commonly, ordinarily, familiarly; in a commonplace or trite way. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adverb] > in a commonplace manner
stalely1609
trivially1625
tritely1691
tritically1762
prosaically1765
commonplacely1854
prosily1874
banally1934
stereotypically1950
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in trite or banal manner
stalely1609
trivially1625
tritely1691
tritically1762
prosaically1765
prosingly1822
commonplacely1854
prosily1874
banally1934
pedestrianly1988
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 171 Neither is Money the Sinewes of Warre (as it is triuially said).
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xi. 17) He is the best preacher, saith Luther, that delivereth himself vulgarly, plainly, trivially.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (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.
1818 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 18 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.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of little importance or trivially
trivially1649
micrologically1872
1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 26 Their youth so trivially spent.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 207. ⁋2 Minds which are not trivially disposed.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii. 216 You speak trivially, but not unwisely.
b. Chiefly Mathematics. In an inconsequential or uninteresting way.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adverb] > in specific way
reciprocally1570
comprehensively1816
trivially1941
strongly1955
weakly1955
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of no importance
unsignificantly1644
trivially1941
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 148 The conclusion is trivially true.
1956 E. M. Patterson Topol. ii. 35 Conditions (T.1) and (T.3) are satisfied trivially.
1977 Language 53 353 But it is trivially true that all features characteristic of creole speech will be removed if decreolization is carried far enough.
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