'Trite' definitions:
Definition of 'trite'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, trite, well-worn]
Definition of 'Trite'
From: GCIDE
- 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. -- {Trite"ly}, adv. -- {Trite"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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