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Trivial vs Skimpy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between trivial and skimpy

is that trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value while skimpy is small or inadequate; not generous, or of a garment, very small, light, or revealing.

As nouns the difference between trivial and skimpy

is that trivial is any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium while skimpy is a barmaid who wears little clothing.

trivial

English

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.

    • Synonyms

    * (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, trifling

    Antonyms

    * nontrivial * important * significant * radical * fundamental

    Derived terms

    * trivia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
    • (Skelton)
    (Wood)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    skimpy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Small or inadequate; not generous, or of a garment, very small, light, or revealing.
    • Have you ever seen such a skimpy bikini?
    They served a pretty skimpy portion of ice cream as the free birthday dessert.

    Noun

    (skimpies)
  • (Australia, Western Australia) A barmaid who wears little clothing.
  • * 2000 , Australian Journal of Mining , page 2,
    • It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies .
  • * 2007 , Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Perth & Western Australia , Lonely Planet, page 159,
    • For an anthropological experience, the front bar at the Exchange Hotel provides a window into some locals? lives at all hours of the day, with skimpies , TV sports and mine workers chain-drinking.
  • * 2010 , Kathy Marks, Tears of the Sun'', Robert Drewe (editor), ''The Best Australian Essays 2010 , page 239,
    • ‘There are thirty-two hotels in Kalgoorlie, and only seven would have skimpies [scantily clad barmaids].’

    Derived terms

    * skimpy work