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"; "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}, {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}]