trite : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: trite	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for trite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trite adj 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'" Synonym(s): banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trite \Trite\, 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.