Childlike vs Trivial - What's the difference?
childlike | trivial | Related terms |
innocent and trustful; credulous; artless
of, like, or suitable for a child
Ignorable; of little significance or value.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Commonplace, ordinary.
* De Quincey
Concerned with or involving trivia.
(biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
(mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
(mathematics) Self-evident.
Pertaining to the trivium.
(philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
Childlike is a related term of trivial.
As adjectives the difference between childlike and trivial
is that childlike is innocent and trustful; credulous; artless while trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value.As a noun trivial is
(obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.childlike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
* 1859 : , Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism *: And on the other hand, fatherly and childlike feelings in the national spirit, are the sources of all pure national blessings. * 1894 : , Lessings Nathan Der Weise *: He certainly has childlike simplicity, and all the qualities which go to make up a true Christian character.Synonyms
* childish * childly * See alsoDerived terms
* childlikenessReferences
* *trivial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones , who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial , twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.
Synonyms
* (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, triflingAntonyms
* nontrivial * important * significant * radical * fundamentalDerived terms
* triviaNoun
(en noun)- (Skelton)
- (Wood)