Both Uses of
trivial
in
The War of the Worlds
- You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting