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 |
| TRINKETY | 3 % | 8 |
| PICAYUNE | 3 % | 8 |
| PIDDLY | 1 % | 6 |
| 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 |
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 TRINKETY
More clues leading to the result PICAYUNE
More clues leading to the result PIDDLY
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.