Naive vs Trivial - What's the difference?
naive | trivial |
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
Ignorable; of little significance or value.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Commonplace, ordinary.
* De Quincey
Concerned with or involving trivia.
(biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
(mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
(mathematics) Self-evident.
Pertaining to the trivium.
(philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
As adjectives the difference between naive and trivial
is that naive is while trivial is ignorable; of little significance or value.As a noun trivial is
(obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.naive
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!
- I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* naively * naivete * naivety * naivenessAnagrams
* ----trivial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones , who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial , twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.
Synonyms
* (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, triflingAntonyms
* nontrivial * important * significant * radical * fundamentalDerived terms
* triviaNoun
(en noun)- (Skelton)
- (Wood)