Both Uses of
trivial
in
Northanger Abbey
- She trembled a little at the idea of anyone's approaching so cautiously; but resolving not to be again overcome by trivial appearances of alarm, or misled by a raised imagination, she stepped quietly forward, and opened the door.†
Chpt 28 *
- Very little passed between them on meeting; each found her greatest safety in silence, and few and trivial were the sentences exchanged while they remained upstairs, Catherine in busy agitation completing her dress, and Eleanor with more goodwill than experience intent upon filling the trunk.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting