Difference between Trivial and Picayune

TRIVIAL vs PICAYUNE: NOUN

One of the three liberal arts which constitute the trivium.
A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered.
One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

A Spanish-American half-real piece formerly used in parts of the southern United States.
A five-cent piece.
Something of very little value; a trifle.
Formerly, in Florida, Louisiana, and adjacent regions, the Spanish half-real, equal to 1⅙ of a dollar, or 6¼ cents; now, the five-cent piece or any similar small coin.
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See fippenny bit.

The specific name.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry.
Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
Found anywhere; common.
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; self-evident.
Of, relating to, or being the solution of an equation in which every variable is equal to zero.
Concerned with or involving unimportant matters; superficial.
Of little significance or value.
Obvious and dull
Not large enough to consider or notice
Of little substance or significance
(informal terms) small and of little importance
Concerned with trivialities
Of or pertaining to the trivium.
(informal) small and of little importance
Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Pertaining to the trivium.
Self-evident.
Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
Common, ordinary.

(informal) small and of little importance
Small-minded: being childishly spiteful, tending to go on about unimportant things.
An argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue at hand or does not change a primary supposition, outcome, postulate, premise, conclusion, hypothesis, judgment or recommendation;
Something not worth arguing about.
Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance; picayunish;
Petty; small-minded.
(informal terms) small and of little importance
Of little value or importance; paltry. : trivial.

In echinoderms, specifically, of or pertaining to the trivium: as, the trivial (anterior) ambulacra of a sea-urchin.
Specific; not generic: noting what used to be called the nomen triviale—that is, the second or specific term in the binomial technical name of an animal or a plant, such terms being often adopted or adapted from a popular name or epithet.
In zoology and botany: Common; popular; vernacular; not technical: noting the popular or familiar names of animals or plants, as distinguished from the technical New Latin names.
Of or pertaining to the trivium, or the first three liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, and logic; hence, initiatory; rudimentary.
Such as may be found everywhere; commonplace; ordinary; vulgar.
Trifling; insignificant; of little worth or importance; paltry.
Occupying one's self with trifles; trifling.

Fiddling, Niggling, Ordinary, Inconsiderable, Commonplace, Piffling, Superficial, Piddling, Frivolous, Petty, Footling, Picayune, Banal, Insignificant, Unimportant

Caviling, Pettier, Inane, Nitpicking, Minutiae, Little, Fiddling, Lilliputian, Niggling, Piffling, Unimportant, Petty, Piddling, Footling, Trivial

Fiddling, Niggling, Ordinary, Inconsiderable, Commonplace, Piffling, Superficial, Piddling, Frivolous, Petty, Footling, Picayune, Banal, Insignificant, Unimportant

Caviling, Pettier, Inane, Nitpicking, Minutiae, Little, Fiddling, Lilliputian, Niggling, Piffling, Unimportant, Petty, Piddling, Footling, Trivial

Just how trivial is that piece of me?
Way to bully publishers over something so trivial.
Indeed, I am quickly assigned several trivial tasks.
CPUs and my problem was trivial to parallelize.
It is the snobbishness of the young to suppose that a theorem is trivial because the proof is trivial.
Many many many years later, I still often make the mistake of assuming things that look trivial to me are also trivial to others.
What we found also is that they had a shortfall, and it seems trivial but it is not trivial, of personnel specialists.
While deploying Azure AD Directory Synchronization is generally a trivial exercise, establishing and maintaining a highly available ADFS infrastructure is not trivial.
What trivial, trivial stuff, interesting to hardly a soul under heaven, save only about three!
It is very trivial stuff, and when not trivial usually false.

Picayune did not prepare me in the least for college or life.
Decades later, the question still echoes in ways both profound and picayune.
Browse New Orleans marriages appearing in the Daily Picayune by name.
While picayune, the distinction between amended and supplemental pleadings is meaningful.
TIMES PICAYUNE Not Recorded BUTLER HELEN ELIZABETH TOEWS, MRS.
SAN FRANCISCO AS IT IS GLEANINGS FROM THE PICAYUNE.
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I picayune Allegra minimally because of the system.
TIMES PICAYUNE Not Recorded WINTERROWD JAUNICE DALTON, MRS.
Mark Gibson in Picayune, MS Mark Gibson may also have lived outside of Picayune, such as Carriere and Poplarville.