Trite \Trite\ (tr[imac]t), a. [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to
rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See Throw, and
cf. Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try.]
Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost
novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a
trite subject. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trite
adj : 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'" [syn: banal, commonplace,
hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare,
timeworn, tired, well-worn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "trite":
airy, asinine, automatic, back-number, banal, bathetic, beaten,
bedridden, bewhiskered, bromidic, catchpenny, chain, cliche,
cliched, common, commonly known, commonplace, constant, corny,
current, cut-and-dried, drained, dull, empty, exhausted, fade,
familiar, fatuous, flat, flimsy, foolish, frequent, fribble,
fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fusty, futile, habitual, hack,
hackney, hackneyed, household, idle, inane, jejune, light,
mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, notorious, nugacious, nugatory,
old hat, ordinary, otiose, overworked, persistent, platitudinous,
prosaic, proverbial, public, ready-made, recurrent, recurring,
regular, repetitive, routine, set, shallow, shopworn, silly,
slender, slight, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, superficial,
talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trifling,
trivial, truistic, twice-told, universally admitted,
universally recognized, unoriginal, used up, vacuous, vain, vapid,
warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized,
well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, windy,
worn, worn thin, worn-out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn
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