Trivial vs Negligible - What's the difference?
trivial | negligible |
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.
Able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
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Negligible is a synonym of trivial.
As adjectives the difference between trivial and negligible
is that trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value while negligible is able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.As a noun trivial
is any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.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)
negligible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We found errors, but their effects were negligible .
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