Trite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed.
  • adj. Archaic Frayed or worn out by use.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
  • n. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
  • n. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rubbed; frayed; worn.
  • Hence Used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; commonplace; worn out; hackneyed; stale.
  • n. In ancient Greek music, the third tone (from the top) of the conjunct, disjunct, and extreme tetrachords. See tetrachord.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  • Equivalent
    unoriginal   
    Cross Reference
    cliché   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    common    hackneyed    stale    commonplace   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bright    Dwight    Knight    Night    White    Wight    Wright    alight    allright    alright   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hackneyed    trivial    insipid    banal    uninteresting    farfetched    prosaic    pithy    wearisome    everyday