Infantile vs Trivial - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to infants.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 Childish; immature.
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.
Infantile is a related term of trivial.
As adjectives the difference between infantile and trivial
is that infantile is pertaining to infants while trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value.As a noun trivial is
(obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.infantile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- infantile paralysis
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile . It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
Synonyms
* (childish) puerileDerived terms
* infantilely * infantilizetrivial
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)