Significant
Significant adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.
Usage example: made a significant change in the procedure for applying for citizenship
Trivial
Trivial adjective - Lacking importance.
Usage example: why spend so much time on trivial decisions, like whether the soda should be regular or diet?
Both words in one sentence
- Keep on mind that some of these are examples where the literal thing to which the title refers is not that significant, but the title also describes the theme (or one of the themes) of the work, so it's not really trivial.
Source: Trivial Title -
A player who has acquired a significant amount of the businesses in the game will have so much income that these fines become very trivial.
Source: Franchise / Fable -
The character was constantly shouting about trivial and sometimes bizarre worries as if they were significant.
Source: NO INDOOR VOICE
Cite this Source
Trivial and Significant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/significant/trivial
Significant & Trivial. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/significant/trivial>.
Trivial or Significant. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/significant/trivial.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "significant" and "trivial" have occurred on timeline