All 4 Uses of
trivial
in
Jane Eyre
- My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.†
Chpt 12 *
- I will; and you shall hear how poor the proposal is, — how trivial — how cramping.†
Chpt 30
- I had entreated him to keep quite clear of the house till everything was arranged: and, indeed, the bare idea of the commotion, at once sordid and trivial, going on within its walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement.†
Chpt 34
- You will see what impetus would be given to your efforts and mine by our physical and mental union in marriage: the only union that gives a character of permanent conformity to the destinies and designs of human beings; and, passing over all minor caprices — all trivial difficulties and delicacies of feeling — all scruple about the degree, kind, strength or tenderness of mere personal inclination — you will hasten to enter into that union at once.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting