The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PETTY , but the solution may also be MERE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Trivial crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PETTY | 24 % | 5 |
| MINOR | 13 % | 5 |
| SMALL | 13 % | 5 |
| NICKELANDDIME | 5 % | 13 |
| INCONSEQUENTIAL | 5 % | 15 |
| BANAL | 5 % | 5 |
| IDLE | 4 % | 4 |
| MERE | 4 % | 4 |
| PALTRY | 4 % | 6 |
| PICAYUNE | 3 % | 8 |
| TRINKETY | 3 % | 8 |
| INANE | 1 % | 5 |
| MICKEYMOUSE | 1 % | 11 |
| PEPPERCORN | 1 % | 10 |
| TINY | 1 % | 4 |
| PIDDLING | 1 % | 8 |
| SMALLBEER | 1 % | 9 |
| NANDD | 1 % | 5 |
| ONEHORSE | 1 % | 8 |
| LITTLE | 1 % | 6 |
| SLIGHT | 1 % | 6 |
| PENNYANTE | 1 % | 9 |
| UNIMPORTANT | 1 % | 11 |
| INSIGNICANT | 1 % | 11 |
| PIDDLY | 1 % | 6 |
Why may MERE be the right solution?
"MERE" is a synonym for trivial, meaning something that is small or insignificant in nature.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Trivial
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- unimportant
- petty
- piddling
- piffling
- footling
- inconsiderable
- insignificant
- superficial
- frivolous
- niggling
- little
- lilliputian
Crossword Answer definitions
PETTY noun- (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
- A class or school for young schoolboys.
- An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
- Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
- Narrow-minded, small-minded.
- Begrudging in nature, especially over insignificant matters.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result PETTY
- Big name at Daytona
- Kind of cash or officer
- Super Bowl XLII halftime entertainer Tom
- Small-minded
- Kind of theft
- 7-time Winston Cup winner Richard
- Of little importance
- Of minor importance
- Tom who sang "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
- Picayune
More clues leading to the result MINOR
- Underage
- Underage one
- Of not much importance
- Scale variety
- One who is one, decidedly
- Juvenile court defendant
- Sad-sounding
- Like some keys
- Asia __
- Trivial
More clues leading to the result SMALL
- T-shirt size
- Dixie cup size
- Kind of change or talk
- See 39A
- Petty
- Like some talk or print
- Kind of talk or print
- Of no consequence
- Pint-sized
- Word with potatoes or talk
More clues leading to the result NICKELANDDIME
- Trivial
- Petty
- Small-time
- Haggle successfully
- Jefferson/Roosevelt face-off?
- Nothing much, to numismatists?
More clues leading to the result INCONSEQUENTIAL
- Does it matter? No, it's ___
- Piddling
- Trivial
- Of little moment.
- Trifling.
- Not worth mentioning
- Trifling
- Lacking importance
More clues leading to the result BANAL
- Corny
- Trite
- Hackneyed
- Unoriginal
- Commonplace
- Extremely hokey
- Not the least bit fresh
- Insipid
- Like an old saw
- Unstimulating
More clues leading to the result IDLE
- Lay off
- Like some threats
- Not in use
- Not working
- Twiddling one's thumbs
- Cleese's cohort, once
- Inactive
- Like chatter, perhaps
- Run in neutral
- Unoccupied
More clues leading to the result MERE
- Being nothing more than
- Insignificant
- Parisian parent
- Simple
- Small
- Bare
- Just
- Michel's mother
- Nothing but
- Nothing more than
More clues leading to the result PALTRY
- Mere
- Contemptibly small
- Picayune
- Trivial
- Insignificant
- Trifling
- Hardly worth mentioning
- Measly
- Meager
- Ridiculously small
More clues leading to the result PICAYUNE
More clues leading to the result TRINKETY
More clues leading to the result INANE
More clues leading to the result MICKEYMOUSE
- Inferior
- Insignificant, slangily
- Rinky-dink
- Disney character
- Disneyland character
- Unimportant
- Disneyland meetable character*
- Disneyland meetable character
- Trivial
- Comic then and now.
More clues leading to the result PEPPERCORN
More clues leading to the result TINY
- Itty bitty
- Like Tim Cratchit
- Like Andorra or Monaco
- Wee
- Itty-bitty
- Not major
- Out of sight?
- Minuscule
- Lilliputian
- Negligible
More clues leading to the result PIDDLING
More clues leading to the result SMALLBEER
More clues leading to the result NANDD
More clues leading to the result ONEHORSE
- Jerkwater
- Rural and unsophisticated
- Like a tiny town
- Like some open sleighs
- Unimportant, as a town
- Tiny, as a town
- Small, as a town
- Dinky
- Tiny and off the beaten path
- Not worth the trip, as a town
More clues leading to the result LITTLE
- Start of a Feiffer comedy
- Like rock 'n' roll's Richard
- Insignificant
- Smidge
- See 103 Across
- Infinitesimal
- "The ___ Foxes" (Lillian Hellman play)
- ___ Em'ly ("David Copperfield" character)
- Diminutive
- Younger, when preceding "sister"
More clues leading to the result SLIGHT
More clues leading to the result PENNYANTE
- Low-stakes game
- Small-time
- Trifling
- Unambitious, as a heist
- Insignificant
- Unimportant
- Game of poker.
- Friendly poker game.
- Family poker.
- Game of a sort.