trivialistic

comparative more trivialistic · superlative most trivialistic

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of trivia.

   There is a laying it on the letter to keep the life out, or the trivialistic use.

   1922, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 52, page 299

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   The majority of philosophy departments have compromised themselves with scientific subjects (which they teach amateurishly), with trivialistic rigor and fatuous clarity.

   1976, Frederick K. Huntington-Vigman, The Collapse of Western Civilization, page 95

   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.

   2006, Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, page 76

   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.

   2012, Mitchell Symons, The Bumper Book For The Loo, page 721

   In all modern systems of dialethic logic, the main focus lies in producing a non-trivialistic proof theory

   2013, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 11, page 273