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Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey.

A trivial matter or method; a triviality. Carlyle.

The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

In a trivial manner.

Quality or state of being trivial.

ation. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.

n which our author would contend for. Locke. Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial. Dr. H. More.

Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

mperative duty. Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith.

Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.] Shak.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. Shak.

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. Arbuthnot.

Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.

r quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Subject; matter. [Obs.] Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.