Trite
[traɪt]
Definition
(a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Common, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, beaten, worn out, common-place.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Worn, hackneyed, stale, threadbare, commonplace, obvious, familiar, trivial
ANT:Original, novel, startling, inventive
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Definition
adj. worn out by use: used till its novelty and interest are lost: hackneyed.—adv. Trite′ly.—n. Trite′ness.
Editor: Rena
Examples
- I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a trite one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- That was true no matter how trite it sounded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What is one man’s food is another man’s poison has been a trite old saying for many years, but the reason why has only in late years been fully understood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For the rest, whether trite or novel, it is short. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is a trite saying that history repeats itself, and certainly no axiom carries more truth than this when applied to the history of each of Edison's important inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I make this trite remark, because I happen to know that Messrs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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