(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.
Unchallenging
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(2) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(3) Rebels moved unchallenged along a road littered with evidence of the air campaign and the speed of their enemies' retreat.
(4) Migration inhibition (MI) assays using peritoneal and spleen cells from immunized but unchallenged mice showed no parallel correlation with percent mortality.
(5) Although unlicensed in the UK, because it uses satellites operated from Luxembourg, not unlike pirate radio, it is allowed to start unchallenged.
(6) Dame Julie Mellor has accused the boards of hospitals of adding to patients' pain and letting poor care continue unchallenged by doing too little to spot and stop serious failings.
(7) In public discourse, to broadcast these ideas and leave them unchallenged is effectively to endorse them.
(8) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(9) While caricatures of welfare dependents reign unchallenged, pressing practical questions about how poor people can make ends meet are ducked.
(10) The lie that the credit crunch was caused by excessive public spending , rather than spectacular managerial private sector failure, continues to go largely unchallenged.
(11) Does that give him an unchallenged right to set a new agenda for how a man talks to a woman?"
(12) There was no checking their charges into space – they needed snuffing out – while the impressive Busquets collected unchallenged in central areas and shifted the ball on, either up to Messi or across the field from one side to the other.
(13) But the letter, passed to the Guardian, claims the BBC increasingly treats Migration Watch as "neutral analysts of UK migration patterns", adding that its opinions often go unchallenged on BBC news programmes.
(14) Weight-induced lesions showed a mixed inflammatory infiltrate, primarily polymorphonuclear (neutrophils and eosinophils), whereas the unchallenged skin sites were normal.
(15) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
(16) These comments must not go unchallenged and have to be investigated by the FA.” Whelan’s apology had attempted to clarify his feelings on Jewish people, but he appeared to remain unsure if “chink” was an offensive term.
(17) Many students saw anesthesiology as limited in scope and unchallenging and indicated that they did not select anesthesiology because it entails insufficient primary patient care.
(18) Next time, though, Fox’s friends will be onscreen unchallenged, and they won’t even have to try.
(19) Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, said: "We now have the European commission reaffirming what everyone knows – that a separate Scotland cannot simply waltz into the EU unchallenged.
(20) An additional 20 chicks from each of the four groups were maintained as unchallenged controls.