adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a small/trivial matter (= a matter that is not important )
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Walking out over such a small matter may seem ridiculous.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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It contributed to a revaluation of photographic genres, so that snapshots could no longer be ignored as trivial and irrelevant.
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It is not as trivial an achievement as you might imagine.
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This latter task was not as trivial as may be supposed in a society where wood and straw huts burnt down regularly.
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But they are wrong to see gay marriage as trivial or frivolous.
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Interest in food, in warmth, in punishment, soon outstripped a matter as trivial as a fire.
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As Goffmann points out these signs have been neglected or disparaged as trivial items.
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So doubt is never treated as trivial .
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It's definitely tempting to dismiss this peculiar, fledging series as trivial .
most
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To meet the target, managers were forced wastefully to expend resources on the most trivial complaints.
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But the humans who taught them haven't managed to pick up even the most trivial elements of gorilla-speak.
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She could not bear the claustrophobia of the place, which magnified the smallest incidents or most trivial remarks into giant horrors.
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There was murder for gain, and for the most trivial and pointless reasons, often for hardly any reason at all.
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I used to have a boyfriend who continually confounded me by his ability to remember the most trivial remarks weeks later.
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And race difference is, among all the differences which have been used to justify oppression, probably the most trivial .
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He gives the same fierce concentration to the most trivial action.
quite
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I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves.
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The ten-knot speed of a liner is quite trivial by comparison.
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All this is really quite trivial compared to my real concern.
relatively
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While the first of the four examples we have quoted seems relatively trivial , the final two have more significance.
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Whether unfudgeability is a new principle is a relatively trivial point.
so
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Morphological processing is not quite so trivial for a computer as it is for a human.
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My favorite dust-ups are when the marital conflict is over something so trivial that you laugh as you retell the story.
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Other defects were so trivial as to have no effect.
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For the very rich, the tax will be so trivial as to be unnoticed.
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Those on the market at the moment are so trivial it is untrue.
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I became tired with Ramon and his canvases and drinking and cursing, it all seemed so trivial .
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He seemed far too competent for life to catch him out in so trivial a way.
too
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Some ideas will be too trivial , some would be impossible to carry out.
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He is a man who feels that anything of this mere Earthly sphere is almost too trivial to notice.
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The content may be too trivial or too deep for the group, causing embarrassment to the teacher.
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Or they marry, and passion dies because they are too trivial to sustain it.
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They may consider them too trivial or feel that the police would be able to offer little assistance.
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Some crimes are not reported at all, because the victim regards them as too trivial .
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No plot is too trivial for him to explore: Gaudy Night.
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No internet service is too trivial to demand a password.
■ NOUN
matter
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In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters .
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From a human relations point of view, Janet had outsmarted Hazel by refusing to become a victim over a trivial matter .
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Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets, such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter .
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Installing and maintaining a Web server is not a trivial matter , however, given the security and administrative issues involved.
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In contrast to what he had been fearing, it was a trivial matter .
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Our obsession with cleanliness is no trivial matter .
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Criminalising them would cover trivial matters , such as neighbours quarrelling over a lawnmower.
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A sad little tale it sounded, a trivial matter to consign a soul to perpetual separation.
name
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It is the same with science and its trivial names .
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Before much was known about the structure, trivial names were the only way to identify compounds.
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For the expert in the field, trivial names are short, convenient and an efficient means of communication.
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Long live the tried and trusted trivial names !
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Where the trivial name is easily remembered by association with shape, the systematic name would kill any enthusiasm.
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The point of this is not the trivial name involved, but the fact that I remember it so clearly.
problem
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May we never become so wrapped up in our own trivial problems that we forget to care about anyone else.
things
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You don't have any time for silly trivial things .
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The poet sees in life a truth that gives significance to the otherwise mean and trivial things .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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No, I don't think your question is trivial at all.
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She often loses her temper over trivial matters.
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The issue of where the peace talks will be held may seem trivial , but to the participants it is very important.
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Why waste time watching trivial TV programs?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that is one reason why this presidential election is beginning to look so transparent and trivial .
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As far as social psychological concepts are concerned, the distinction between universal and particular is not a trivial one.
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From a human relations point of view, Janet had outsmarted Hazel by refusing to become a victim over a trivial matter.
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Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets, such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter.
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In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters.
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People in them feel liberated from the trivial and the arbitrary.
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Some ideas will be too trivial , some would be impossible to carry out.
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This is tiny, but not trivial .