trivially true
/ˈtrɪviəli truː/
adjective phrase
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True in an obvious or very simple way, often because it follows directly from a definition or an assumption.
B2formal
- "The statement 'All bachelors are unmarried' is trivially true."B2
- "Once the definitions are established, the first part of the theorem is trivially true."B2
- "The claim is trivially true under the stated assumptions, so the proof focuses on the more difficult case."C1