EGAVE

trite

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.
  2. adjective So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.
  3. noun A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
  4. noun In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lower-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the paranete and higher than the paramese.

Similar words

hackneyed banal commonplace unoriginal tired timeworn shopworn well-worn threadbare stock

Often followed by

and to or saying but as expressions remark observation

Word family

tritely triteness tritenesses triter tritest

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