Adjective

(en adjective)

Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.

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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Ignorable; of little significance or value.

* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

"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."

Commonplace, ordinary.

* De Quincey

As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.

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.