Optional vs Trivial - What's the difference?
optional | trivial |
Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
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.
As adjectives the difference between optional and trivial
is that optional is not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective while trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value.As a noun trivial is
(obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.optional
English
Adjective
(-)- On that beach clothing is entirely optional .
Antonyms
* obligatory * mandatory * compulsorytrivial
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)