[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trivial \triv"ial\, a. l. trivialis, properly, that is in, or
   belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may
   be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three
   roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- see tri-
   + via a way: cf. f. trivial. see voyage.
   1. found anywhere; common. obs.
      1913 webster

   2. ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
      1913 webster

            as a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and
            incapable of labor.                   --de quincey.
      1913 webster

   3. of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling;
      petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
      1913 webster

            the trivial round, the common task.   --keble.
      1913 webster

   4. of or pertaining to the trivium.
      1913 webster

   trivial name nat. hist., the specific name.
      1913 webster
see also:
tri- voyage trivial name 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trivial \triv"ial\, n.
   one of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. obs.
   --skelton. wood.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

trivial
     adj 1: informal terms small and of little importance; "a fiddling
            sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
            lilliputian compared with those of countries that are
            at war"; "a little or small matter"; "mickey mouse
            regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details";
            "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts";
            "giving a police officer a free meal may be against
            the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
            syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little,
             mickey mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
             picayune
     2: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
        prose" syn: banal, commonplace
     3: of little substance or significance; "a few superficial
        editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" syn: superficial
     4: concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a
        trivial mind"
     5: not large enough to consider or notice syn: insignificant
see also:
fiddling footling lilliputian little mickey mouse niggling 
piddling piffling petty picayune banal 
commonplace superficial insignificant 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

111 moby thesaurus words for "trivial":
   mickey, ng, airy, ankle-deep, asinine, base, bickering, captious,
   casual, catchpenny, caviling, cheap, choplogic, cursory, deficient,
   depthless, empty, epidermal, equivocatory, evasive, fatuous, few,
   flimsy, foolish, footling, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy,
   futile, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hairsplitting, hedging,
   idle, imperfect, inadequate, inane, incompetent, inconsequential,
   inconsiderable, insignificant, insufficient, jejune, junk, junky,
   knee-deep, light, little, logic-chopping, low, maladroit, meager,
   mean, measly, mediocre, miniature, minor, negligible, nit-picking,
   no great shakes, no-account, no-good, not comparable, not deep,
   not in it, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile,
   nugacious, nugatory, on the surface, otiose, out of it, paltering,
   petty, picayune, picayunish, pussyfooting, quibbling, shabby,
   shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, shoddy, shoestring, short,
   shuffling, silly, skin-deep, slender, slight, small, small-beer,
   superficial, surface, thin, tiny, trashy, trichoschistic, trifling,
   trite, unimportant, unprofound, unskillful, vacuous, vain,
   valueless, vapid, windy, worthless

[5] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

trivial adj. 1. too simple to bother detailing. 2. not worth the
   speaker's time. 3. complex, but solvable by methods so well known that
   anyone not utterly cretinous would have thought of them already. 4.
   any problem one has already solved some claim that hackish `trivial'
   usually evaluates to `i've seen it before'. hackers' notions of
   triviality may be quite at variance with those of non-hackers. see
   nontrivial, uninteresting.

   the physicist richard feynman, who had the hacker nature to an amazing
   degree see his essay "los alamos from below" in "surely you're joking,
   mr. feynman", defined `trivial theorem' as "one that has already been
   proved".


see also:
cretinous nontrivial uninteresting 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

trivial. of small importance. it is a rule in equity that a demurrer will 
lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as 
being below the dignity of the court. 4 bouv. inst. n. 4237. see hopk. r. 
112; 4 john. ch. 183; 4 paige, 364. 

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