Difference between Trivial and Piddling

TRIVIAL vs PIDDLING: 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.

Concerned with trivialities
Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
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
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; self-evident.
(informal) small and of little importance
Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Pertaining to the trivium.
Found anywhere; common.
Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
Common, ordinary.
The specific name.
Of or pertaining to the trivium.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry.
Self-evident.

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.
Occupying one's self with trifles; trifling.
Trifling; insignificant; of little worth or importance; paltry.
Such as may be found everywhere; commonplace; ordinary; vulgar.

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

Pittance, Measly, Trifling, Paltry, Puny, Niggling, Lilliputian, Fiddling, Petty, Unimportant, Little, Picayune, Footling, Trivial, Piffling

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

Pittance, Measly, Trifling, Paltry, Puny, Niggling, Lilliputian, Fiddling, Petty, Unimportant, Little, Picayune, Footling, Trivial, Piffling

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.

HALLIE: So THAT'S why I haven't gotten but a piddling amount of my new book written for the last three months.
But he needed the entire ceremony and spells, not just this piddling bit he had so far.
Many people are anything like me, individuals they should chase around to have a piddling monthly minimum repayment.
Hunker contact with the nova, lips, angles of the nose, and piddling membranes.
OK to divulge a microscopic more cover up prime justifiable a piddling!
Seriously, compared to the likes of Microsoft, Boeing, or even Starbucks, their corporate philanthropy has been piddling.
Think about how frustrating it is to stand in line and deal with your one piddling return.
Past that night I spent a lot of time piddling around in stuff by myself.
Lists of piddling little trials with glaring inadequacies will not do.
This is a miracle at once piddling and poetic.