essential vs trivial

essential

adj
  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 

  • Necessary. 

  • Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 

  • Really existing; existent. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 

  • Idiopathic. 

noun
  • A necessary ingredient. 

  • A fundamental ingredient. 

trivial

adj
  • Self-evident. 

  • Commonplace, ordinary. 

  • Pertaining to the trivium. 

  • Ignorable; of little significance or value. 

  • Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic. 

  • Concerned with or involving trivia. 

  • Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. 

  • Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity. 

How often have the words essential and trivial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )