TRITE

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

(adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; “bromidic sermons”; “his remarks were trite and commonplace”; “hackneyed phrases”; “a stock answer”; “repeating threadbare jokes”; “parroting some timeworn axiom”; “the trite metaphor ‘hard as nails’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Adjective

trite (comparative triter, superlative tritest)

Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.

(legal) So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.

Synonyms

• See also hackneyed

Etymology 2

Noun

trite (uncountable)

A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.

Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.

Anagrams

• tetri, titer, titre

Source: Wiktionary

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Trite, a. Etym: [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See Throw, and cf. Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try.]

Definition: Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.

– Trite"ly, adv.

– Trite"ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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