trivial

In a sentence

Six example sentences with trivial, each labelled with its topic.

• The bug looked trivial until they realized it deleted one row of every thousand during the nightly backup.

  Technology

• Most of the argument in the writers room was trivial, and the two lines they fought over never reached the screen.

  Movies

• People remember a trivial insult for years while forgetting the loan that actually got them through a hard winter.

  Psychology

• A philosopher may spend a year on a question most people call trivial, such as when a heap stops being a heap.

  Philosophy

• The judge dismissed the claim as trivial, noting that a scratch on a rented scooter did not justify a year of litigation.

  Law

• The fee looked trivial at a quarter of a percent, yet over thirty years it consumed a fifth of the pension.

  Finance

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains trivial. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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