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trivial
adjective as in not important
Strongest matches
commonplace, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trite, unimportant
Weak matches
atomic, beside the point, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, inappreciable, inconsiderable, little, meager, mean, microscopic, minute, momentary, nonessential, nugatory, of no account, piddling, puny, scanty, skin-deep, slight, small, trifling, valueless, vanishing, worthless
Example Sentences
"Further, our members are adults. They do not need to be given instructions by the media about matters as trivial as the wearing of jewellery or underpants."
The Club 27 myth may seem trivial, but in the age of Wikipedia, it is valuable because it can be analyzed with data.
What he found is that “the kinds of things that do make you happy, whether trivial or profound, will still be operative when you’re stressed about something else.”
“All it does is reinforce the idea that domestic work is something so trivial you can just outsource to ‘foreign aunties.’
It may seem like a trivial thing, but I think red-versus-blue rhetoric accelerated polarization by solidifying the idea that partisanship is a kind of identity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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