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adjective, trit·er, trit·est. 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 1540–50; <Latin trītus worn, common, equivalent to trī- (variant stem of terere to rub, wear down) + -tus past participle suffix
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synonym study for trite 1 . See commonplace.
OTHER WORDS FROM trite tritely, adverb triteness, noun un·trite, adjective un·trite·ly, adverb
un·trite·ness, noun
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Words nearby trite trisyllable, trit., tritagonist, tritanomaly, tritanopia, trite , tritheism, trithing, tritiate, triticale, triticum
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Example sentences from the Web for trite Instead, Bly Manor ultimately seems to jettison all its carefully built characterizations in favor of a plot resolution that essentially happens completely offstage, to usher in an ending that feels hand-waved and trite .
Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor is a calm, loving study in how to exorcise your ghosts | Aja Romano| October 9, 2020| Vox
The game's rendering engine is incredibly beautiful, but the characters it renders are shallow, trite , and frequently downright hateful—and the storyline, at least for the first 15 hours, is pretty similar.
I played 15 hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 early access, and I want them back | Jim Salter| October 6, 2020| Ars Technica
The things Lindsay shows Lohan doing should be trite and calming.
Lindsay Lohan’s Reality Show Is the Most Stressful Thing on TV | Kevin Fallon| March 10, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: A watercolor shows how the great painter mixed the radical and the trite .
Cezanne's Cliches | Blake Gopnik| August 16, 2013| DAILY BEAST
Did something so trite really belong on the letters page of the world's most important newspaper?
Think American Airlines Is Rotten? You Have No Idea How Good You Have It | Patrick Smith| October 11, 2012| DAILY BEAST
The show may be trite , but Disney wisely had theater favorite Harvey Fierstein write the book.
The Tony Awards Are About a Lot More Than Theatrical Excellence | Janice Kaplan| June 6, 2012| DAILY BEAST
They also have to be two words, and neither of them can be "exotic" or "trite ," or commercial trademarks, or the word "operation."
Why Is the Libya War Called Operation Odyssey Dawn? | Josh Dzieza| March 22, 2011| DAILY BEAST
You may think this obvious and what you call a trite observation.
Memoir of John Howe Peyton | Various
There is a trite proverb to the effect that the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Garcia the Centenarian And His Times | M. Sterling Mackinlay
All this had been so sudden that, to use the trite phrase,—for no other is so expressive,—it was like a dream.
The Caxtons, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is a trite remark that diamonds can be polished only by diamond dust.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
Yet every now and then their references to everyday happenings were trite enough.
The Evil Shepherd | E. Phillips Oppenheim
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British Dictionary definitions for trite adjective hackneyed; dull a trite comment
archaic frayed or worn out
Derived forms of trite tritely , adverb triteness , noun Word Origin for trite C16: from Latin trītus worn down, from terere to rub
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Words related to trite banal, dull, corny, hackneyed, chain, cliché, common, drained, exhausted, flat, hokey, jejune, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill