Trivial vs Hackneyed - What's the difference?
trivial | hackneyed |
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.
Repeated too often.
(hackney)
As adjectives the difference between trivial and hackneyed
is that trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value while hackneyed is repeated too often.As a noun trivial
is (obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.As a verb hackneyed is
(hackney).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)
hackneyed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.