tritishadj.
/ˈtrʌɪtɪʃ/ Somewhat trite.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace
quotidian1430
trite1548
beaten1587
trivial1589
threadbare1598
protrite1604
prose1606
commonplace1616
everyday1628
prostitute1631
prosaical1699
tritical1709
prosaic1729
tritish1779
hack1821
rum-ti-tum1832
unspecial1838
banal1840
commonplacish1847
prosy1849
inventionless1887
thread-worn1888
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal > somewhat
tritish1779
1779 T. Twining in Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 60 The notes..seem now and then to be tritish.
1980 Times 5 June 11/3 A good, if triteish, situation.
Derivatives
tritism n. /ˈtraɪtɪz(ə)m/ trite or commonplace character.
/ˈtraɪtɪz(ə)m/ trite or commonplace character.ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > state or quality of being trite or banal
tameness1530
triteness1727
triticalness1727
tritism1785
commonplaceness1808
prosiness1814
triticism1824
triticality1835
commonplace1842
commonplaceism1851
prosaicness1852
prosaism1855
hackneydom1867
prosaicalness1876
banality1878
mundanity1959
squareness1961
1785 Rolliad (1812) 137 A solid truth in the observation of Horace which its tritism does not destroy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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