All 4 Uses of
trivial
in
A Room of One's Own
- We are all going to heaven and Vandyck is of the company—in other words, how good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette, one sunk among the cushions in the window-seat.†
Chpt 1trivial = unimportant
- Speaking crudely, football and sport are 'important'; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes 'trivial'.†
Chpt 4 *
- —beckoning and summoning, and there would rise up in memory, half forgotten, perhaps quite trivial things in other chapters dropped by the way.†
Chpt 5
- Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting