trite
lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.: The commencement address was trite and endlessly long.
Archaic. rubbed or worn by use.
Origin of trite
1synonym study For trite
Other words for trite
Opposites for trite
Other words from trite
- tritely, adverb
- triteness, noun
- un·trite, adjective
- un·trite·ly, adverb
- un·trite·ness, noun
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How to use trite in a sentence
Of course he worries himself about it, just as if "great results from small beginnings" were not the tritest of all truisms.
Guy Livingstone; | George A. LawrenceAnd although this is the tritest remark in the world, it was more or less fitting, as will be shortly proved.
Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 | James BarnesSadly often they added the tritest three-monosyllabled expletive known to red-hot English.
Kincaid's Battery | George W. CableAs a rule, she chooses the tritest topics, but she gives them a novelty and grace of her own.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them | AnonymousOur whole style of expression and sentiment is infected with the tritest plagiarisms.
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays | Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Dictionary definitions for trite
/ (traɪt) /
hackneyed; dull: a trite comment
archaic frayed or worn out
Origin of trite
1Derived forms of trite
- tritely, adverb
- triteness, noun
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