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Nontrivial

/nän-tri-vē-əl/

adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial"). The preferred emphatic form is 'decidedly nontrivial'.

See trivial, uninteresting, interesting.