What's the difference between easy and trivial?

Easy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
  • (v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
  • (v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
  • (v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
  • (v. t.) Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
  • (v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
  • (v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
  • (v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
  • (v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.
  • (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
  • (2) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
  • (3) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
  • (4) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
  • (5) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
  • (6) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
  • (7) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
  • (8) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.
  • (9) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (10) These plasmids allow expression of native or truncated forms of the enzyme and easy purification of the products.
  • (11) This approach permits easy preparation of input data on the dimensions of the blocks and their positions in a 3-D arrangement.
  • (12) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.
  • (13) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
  • (14) Chemically induced transformation of the stable heteroploid cell line (F1706) was manifested by an easy to read focal alteration.
  • (15) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (16) In conclusion, the indications are not often easy and is usually the object of a study of each case individually.
  • (17) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
  • (18) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
  • (19) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
  • (20) Protriptyline also widened the ventricular echo zone and allowed easy induction of long runs of ventricular tachycardia.

Trivial


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
  • (a.) Found anywhere; common.
  • (a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
  • (a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
  • (2) Governmental regulations, requirements, and standards have improved the quality of many laboratories' work, but also result in greatly increased costs, excesses of often trivial procedures, and diversion of trained manpower from clinical service to regulatory procedures, with a resulting increase in manpower needs.
  • (3) Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter.
  • (4) While they might technically have been denied a majority in that scenario, making up the two missing seats would have been trivial.
  • (5) We have shown that patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) complain of disabling dyspnea when performing seemingly trivial tasks with unsupported arms.
  • (6) Given the documented sensitivity of chest radiography in this respect, we conclude that any increase in extravascular lung water during exercise must be trivial.
  • (7) schizophrenia), the underestimation of prevalence by the proband method may be non-trivial.
  • (8) They range from relatively trivial conditions such as oral and genital thrush to fatal, systemic superinfections in patients who are already seriously ill with other diseases.
  • (9) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
  • (10) To the sensitization and the sensitine production the following type strains (Trudeau Institute Saranac Lake) were used: M. avium, M. borstelense, M.chelonei, M. flavescens, M. fortuitum, M. gastri, M. gordonae, M.kansaii, M. marinum, M nonchromogenicum, M. phlei, M. scrofulaceum, M. smegmatis, M. terrae, M. triviale and M. bovis strain Vallee as well as M. intracellulare serotyp Davis ATCC 23435.
  • (11) Cardiovascular sequelae were generally trivial at all doses.
  • (12) Previous studies have indicated that suppression is mediated by "null cells" similar to natural suppressor (NS) cells (1), and have ruled out several possible trivial explanations for the suppressive effect.
  • (13) Since the biosynthetic route is similar to that of lipoxin A4 and lipoxin B4, we suggest the trivial names lipoxin C4, D4 and E4.
  • (14) This polysaccharide has been given the trivial name marginalan.
  • (15) Rupture of the bridging veins or the intratumoral abnormal vessels due to twisting of the brain from trivial head trauma or without trauma might produce subdural hematoma.
  • (16) Five patients had normal intracardiac hemodynamic values, 2 had trivial atrioventricular valve regurgitation and 1 patient had trivial pulmonary ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
  • (17) Six weeks later, two weeks after a trivial trauma with hyperextension of the shoulder joint, it was found that the catheter had broken and its tip portion had embolized into the pulmonary artery: it was retrieved without difficulty via the femoral vein.
  • (18) The results indicate that dichromatic and trichromatic monkeys differ only trivially on tests where performance is based on the contributions of non-opponent mechanisms, that the contribution of spectrally opponent mechanisms to the "brightness signal" is very similar in trichromatic and dichromatic monkeys, and that in increment-threshold discriminations where there are both chromaticity and luminance cues some test wavelengths yield superior performance for trichromats while others appear to favor the dichromat.
  • (19) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
  • (20) The appetite was selective as shown by the fact that when, after depletion, 0.34 M-CaCl2 was offered (which is equiosmotic to 3% NaCl) pigeons took just a trivial amount of it.