trivial

 
Pronunciation: /ˈtrɪvɪəl/

adjective

  • 1of little value or importance: huge fines were imposed for trivial offences trivial details
  • (of a person) concerned only with petty things.
  • 2 Mathematics denoting a subgroup that either contains only the identity element or is identical with the given group.

Derivatives

trivially

adverb

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'belonging to the trivium'): from medieval Latin trivialis, from Latin trivium (see trivium)