trivialistic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trivial +‎ -istic

Adjective[edit]

trivialistic (comparative more trivialistic, superlative most trivialistic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of trivia.
    • 1922, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 52, page 299:
      There is a laying it on the letter to keep the life out, or the trivialistic use.
    • 1976, Frederick K. Huntington-Vigman, The Collapse of Western Civilization, page 95:
      The majority of philosophy departments have compromised themselves with scientific subjects (which they teach amateurishly), with trivialistic rigor and fatuous clarity.
    • 2006, Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, page 76:
      Thus attention is drawn in passing to two different cultures; one that is formalistic and trivialistic and another that is pragmatic and goes for the heart of the matter.
    • 2012, Mitchell Symons, The Bumper Book For The Loo, page 721:
      In this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with a bumper selection of trivialistic treats - each one more remarkable and, yes, even more trivial than anything he's compiled before.
    • 2013, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 11, page 273:
      In all modern systems of dialethic logic, the main focus lies in producing a non-trivialistic proof theory