trivialadjective
uk/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/us/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/B2 having little value or importance:
I don't know why he gets so upset about something so trivial.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a trivial matter.
A trivial problem is easy to solve:
Getting computers to understand human language is not a trivial problem.
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- It was a badly researched documentary which glossed over important questions while pointing up trivial ones.
- She gets completely stressed about trivial things.
- The problems she faces are not trivial.
- She has been suffering from a series of trivial illnesses.
- The cost of the postage is trivial.
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Of little or less importance
- be in/under sb's shadow idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no big deal idiom
- biggie
- derisory
- fringe
- inferior
- merely
- minor
- miss
- mouldy
- need
- peripheral
- petty
- poxy
- rinky-dink
- sideshow
- small-time
- stay
- subordinate
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