Adjective: trivialistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more trivialistic |
| Superlative | most trivialistic |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like trivialistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From trivial + -istic.