The difference between Easy and Trivial

When used as nouns, easy means something that is easy, whereas trivial means any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

When used as adjectives, easy means comfortable, whereas trivial means ignorable.


Easy is also adverb with the meaning: in a relaxed or casual manner.

check bellow for the other definitions of Easy and Trivial

  1. Easy as an adjective (now, rare, _, except in certain expressions):

    Comfortable; at ease.

    Examples:

    "Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night."

  2. Easy as an adjective:

    Requiring little skill or effort.

    Examples:

    "It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up."

    "The teacher gave an easy test to her students."

  3. Easy as an adjective:

    Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.

    Examples:

    "Rich people live in easy circumstances."

    "an easy chair"

  4. Easy as an adjective:

    Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.

    Examples:

    "easy manners; an easy style"

  5. Easy as an adjective (informal, pejorative, of a person):

    Consenting readily to sex.

    Examples:

    "He has a reputation for being easy; they say he slept with half the senior class."

  6. Easy as an adjective:

    Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.

  7. Easy as an adjective (finance, dated):

    Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to .

    Examples:

    "The market is easy."

  1. Easy as an adverb:

    In a relaxed or casual manner.

    Examples:

    "After his illness, John decided to [[take it easy take it easy]]."

  2. Easy as an adverb:

    In a manner without strictness or harshness.

    Examples:

    "Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm."

  3. Easy as an adverb:

    Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.

    Examples:

    "This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy."

  4. Easy as an adverb:

    Not difficult, not hard.

  1. Easy as a noun:

    Something that is easy

  1. Easy as a verb (rowing):

  1. Trivial as an adjective:

    Ignorable; of little significance or value.

  2. Trivial as an adjective:

    Commonplace, ordinary.

  3. Trivial as an adjective:

    Concerned with or involving trivia.

  4. Trivial as an adjective (taxonomy):

    Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.

  5. Trivial as an adjective (mathematics):

    Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

  6. Trivial as an adjective (mathematics):

    Self-evident.

  7. Trivial as an adjective:

    Pertaining to the trivium.

  8. Trivial as an adjective (philosophy):

    Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

  1. Trivial as a noun (obsolete):

    Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Skelton"

    "rfquotek Wood"