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trivial
adjective as in not important
Strongest matches
commonplace, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trite, unimportant
Weak matches
atomic, beside the point, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, inappreciable, inconsiderable, little, meager, mean, microscopic, minute, momentary, nonessential, nugatory, of no account, piddling, puny, scanty, skin-deep, slight, small, trifling, valueless, vanishing, worthless
Example Sentences
Despite this, the Western ideology that dominates Canadian laws has often considered Indigenous people’s impact on some of this land to be trivial, and so discounts their land rights.
Some are trivial and others are more weighty.
"Further, our members are adults. They do not need to be given instructions by the media about matters as trivial as the wearing of jewellery or underpants."
The Club 27 myth may seem trivial, but in the age of Wikipedia, it is valuable because it can be analyzed with data.
What he found is that “the kinds of things that do make you happy, whether trivial or profound, will still be operative when you’re stressed about something else.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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