What is the meaning of trivial?

Informal) small and of little importance. (
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune
Of little substance or significance.
- usage: "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
- synonyms: superficial
Concerned with trivialities.
- usage: "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

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