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trite

UK/tɹaɪt/ US/tɹaɪt/ uncommon

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”
  • “'”

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tritē, from Ancient Greek τρίτη (trítē, literally “third [string]”).

Phrases

  • trite law

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