nontrivial

adjective

non·​triv·​i·​al ˌnän-ˈtri-vē-əl 

1

: not trivial : significant, important

a small but nontrivial amount

… engineering a power plant around the technology is a nontrivial problem.

—John Fleck

2

mathematics : having the value of at least one variable or term not equal to zero

a nontrivial solution

Examples of nontrivial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To borrow from the lexicon of Silicon Valley, the USA’s position on AI is ‘nontrivial’ but perhaps more ‘antifragile’ than perennially dominant and resilient. —London Business School, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025

If Trump’s most transactional impulses become U.S. policy, however, the United States will lose a tarnished but nontrivial asset in its power-politics toolkit. —Alexander Cooley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

Achieving this level of standardization and cross-compatibility is a nontrivial task that can slow down adoption. —Ayush Gupta, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

Though simple for a human to grasp, this concept is nontrivial for a computer to learn and thus would require inordinate amounts of training data and time. —Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for nontrivial

• convivial
• trivial