Both Uses of
trivial
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- She had tried to elude agitation by fixing her mind on the trees, sky, any trivial object before her eyes, whilst his reproaches fell, but ingenuity could not save her now.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- She was set thinking a great deal about Oak and of his wish to shun her; and there occurred to Bathsheba several incidents of her latter intercourse with him, which, trivial when singly viewed, amounted together to a perceptible disinclination for her society.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting