Trite

Definition: Trite

Trite

Adjective

1. 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'".

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Date "trite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Etymology: Trite \Trite\, adjective. [Latin expression tritus, past participle of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to English throw. See Throw, and compare to Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Trite

Impulse

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Knowledge

Known; Verb: ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.

Maxim

Received truth, wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized maxim; true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying, commonplace saying;

Crosswords: Trite

What a cruel world, letting something this profound be conveyed in words this trite! (The Maxx; writing credit: Sam Kieth; Bill Messner-Loebs)

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Books

• Evangelieto na trite samovili (reference)

• The Trite report : examining female sexuality (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expression using "trite": trite saying. Additional references.

Afrikaans

alledaags (commonplace, daily, dismal), banaal (commonplace, dismal). (various references)

Albanian

i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, vulgar), i palezetshëm (ill-favored, ill-favoured, inurbane, unagreeable, unbeseeming, uncomely, unpleasant, unseemly, vapid), i grirë (beaten, cankered, hackneyed, minced, obsolete, outworn, stale, threadbare). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏بايخ (banal, rotten, tired, vapid), ‏بال (decomposed, decrepit, fossil, mangy, musty, old fashioned, outmoded, outworn, rotten, shabby, stale, threadbare, tired, well worn, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), банален (banal, commonplace, everyday, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, tired, trivial, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out), изтъркан (bare, hack, hackneyed, napless, old hat, outworn, platitudinous, played out, raunchy, shabby, stale, stereotypical, threadbare, time worn, twice-told, warmed-over, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Chinese 

陈腐 (Banal, Banalities, Banality). (various references)

Czech

všední (commonplace, corny, everyday, flat, ordinary, shallow, trivial), otřepaný (corny, hackneyed, jaded, outworn, overworked, platitudinous, stale, threadbare, well worn), banální (banal, corny, hackneyed). (various references)

Dutch

banaal (commonplace, dismal), alledaags (common, commonplace, daily, dismal, everyday, vulgar), afgezaagd (commonplace, dismal, hackneyed, hard-worked, stale, worn-out). (various references)

Esperanto

tede banala (hackneyed, hard-worked, stale, worn-out), banala (commonplace, dismal). (various references)

Finnish

jokapäiväinen (commonplace, daily, every day, ordinary). (various references)

French

banal (trivial). (various references)

Frisian

sljochtweihinne (commonplace, dismal), deisk (commonplace, daily, dismal), ôfseage (hackneyed, hard-worked, stale, worn-out). (various references)

German

abgedroschen (banal, commonplace, corny, dismal, hackneyed, outworn, timeworn, tritely, well worn, worn out), banal (banal, banally, commonplace, dismal, hackneyed, mundane, trivial). (various references)

Greek 

κοινότυποσ, τετριμμένοσ (banal, commonplace, hackneyed, outworn, platitudinous, prosaic, prosaical, shopworn, threadbare, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�'רתי (conventional, customary, everyday, hackneyed, routine, stock), שבלו� י (banal, hackneyed, stereotypical), � �"וש (banal, hackneyed, platitudinous, stale, threshed, well worn). (various references)

Hungarian

banális (banal, commonplace, corny, dismal, quotidian, stale). (various references)

Indonesian

banal (banal). (various references)

Italian

banale (banal, common, commonplace, corny, dismal, hackneyed, mundane, platitudinous, prosy, trivial), trito e ritrito (hackneyed, hard-worked, stale, worn-out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

聞き旧した (hackneyed), 聞き古した (hackneyed), 有り触れた (commonplace, mundane, unsurprising), 月次 (common, every month), 月並み (common, every month), 月並 (common, every month), 古臭い (hackneyed, old fashioned, stale). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ききふるした (hackneyed), ふるくさい (hackneyed, old fashioned, stale), つきなみ (common, every month), ありふれた (commonplace, mundane, unsurprising), �'つじ (common, every month, menstruation). (various references)

Manx

shenn-cheaut (well-worn). (various references)

Pig Latin

itetray

Portuguese

vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, gossipy, gross, hackney, hackneyed, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-minded, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian, penny-a-line, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, ready-made, soulless, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosy, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, flimsy, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosaic, prosy, quotidian, ready-made, stale, trifling, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, unoriginal, vulgar). (various references)

Romanian

trivial (coarse, common, foul, licentious, low-lived, peddling, vulgar, vulgarly), stereotip (stereotype), ieftin (cheap, commonplace, fair, inexpensive, inexpensively, low, low-priced, modest, popular, reasonable, threepenny, twopenny, worthless), banal (banal, cheap, commonplace, daily, dusty, everyday, hackneyed, humdrum, indifferent, indistinctive, insipid, mediocre, puerile, small, threadbare, trivial, unimaginative). (various references)

Russian 

банальный (banal, commonplace, corny, hack, hackneyed, obvious, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosy, quotidian). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otrcan (commonplace, corny, hackneyed, outworn, shabby, stale, tame, threadbare, well worn), banalan (banal, camp, commonplace, corny, crude, hackneyed). (various references)

Spanish

trivial (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, footling, mundane, piffling, platitudinous, sapless, trivial), trillado (hackneyed, hard-worked, played out, stale, threadbare, threshed, worn out, worn-out), redicho (hackneyed, hard-worked, refined, stale, worn-out), común (common, commonalty, commonplace, communal, community, current, dismal, extensive, familiar, generous, indistinctive, joint, mutual, ordinary, prevailing, rife, team, usual, widespread). (various references)

Swedish

banal (banal, commonplace, corny, dismal, flat, hack, hackneyed, humdrum, insipid, novelettish, platitudinarian, threadbare), nött (well worn, worn). (various references)

Turkish

eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, used, vet, veteran), bayat (corny, cut and dried, dated, detrited, not fresh, old, stale, threadbare, twice-told, worn, worn out), basmakalıp (banal, cliché, common place, conventional, copybook, hackneyed, Pat, platitudinous, routine, set, stereotyped, stock, well worn). (various references)

Ukrainian

банальний (banal, commonplace, hack, hackneyed, humdrum, obvious, platitudinous, quotidian, worn), потертий (frayed, threadbare, worn out). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sáo (mouthpiece), nh� m (humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous), lặp đi lặp lại (iterant, repeated), cũ rích (commonplace), cũ kỹ (antediluvian, bygone, dated, world-old). (various references)

abiectus, calcatus, contrita, contritae, contritaeque, contriti, contritis, contrito, contritos, contritum, contritus, tritus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trite": tritely, triteness, tritenesses, triter, tritest. (additional references)

Words ending with "trite": attrite, contrite, nitrite. (additional references)

Words containing "trite": attrited, contritely, contriteness, contritenesses, nitrites. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drite, Dritte, krite, Rtitb, Shriteh, tfit, thite, tirate, tiret, tite, titi, titre, titte, toite, torate, torit, torita, tortie, traet, Traicte, traite, traited, trate, traten, treate, treet, trete, triat, triet, Trietz, trife, trige, Trigen, trime, tript, trirex, Trista, trister, tristi, trit, Tritc, Tritec, trited, Tritel, triten, triter, trites, trith, tritici, tritler, tritr, trits, tritt, triwe, trize, trote, trute, Trutex, Trypto, tryste, tryt, tuite, turit, tzit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: titer, titre.

-1 letter: rite, tier, tire, tret.

-2 letters: ire, rei, ret, tet, tie, tit.

-3 letters: er, et, it, re, ti.

+1 letter: attire, bitter, fitter, hitter, jitter, litter, ratite, retint, ritter, sitter, territ, tilter, tinter, titers, titfer, tither, titres, titter, trijet, triste, triter, trivet.

+2 letters: arietta, ariette, artiest, artiste, attired, attires, attrite, battier, biretta, bittern, bitters, bittier, brittle, cattier, chitter, citrate, cittern, cottier, critter, dottier, emitter, fattier, fitters, flitter, fritted, fritter, gittern, glitter, gritted, guttier, hitters, intreat, iratest, iterant, iterate, jettier, jitters, jittery, kittler, knitter, litters, littery, littler, metrist, nattier, nettier, nitrate, nitrite, nittier, nuttier, omitter, partite, pettier, pottier, puttier, quitter, ratites, rattier, retints, retitle, retting, retwist, ritters, ruttier, sitters, skitter, slitter, spitter, stinter, stretti, striate, tastier, tattier, tectrix, tentier, tergite, termite, territs, tertial, tertian, testier, thither, thorite, tighter, tilters, tinters, tipster, titfers, tithers, titrate, titters, tortile, tribute, trident, trijets, trinket, triolet, triplet, trippet, trisect, tritely, tritest, tritone, trivets, tuftier, turgite, twister, twitter, whitter, wittier, written.