trite
IPA: trˈaɪt
noun
- A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
adjective
- Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.
- (law) So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.
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Examples of "trite" in Sentences
- The previous seems dubious and trite.
- It's because it's verging on the trite.
- The Batman comparison is self evident and trite.
- His style of writing was never trite and mundane.
- The critiques are also at a similarly trite level.
- I agree with Sina that the debate is getting trite.
- That sounds trite, but I think that's the bottom line.
- Why do fools speak in trite cliched meaningless phrasing?
- In other words the conotations are non scientific, and trite.
- At the risk of sounding trite, redirects really are that cheap.
- A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement.
- I had never heard someone use the word trite in actual conversation before.
- Maybe she's confused by your claim because she knows what the word trite actually means.
- Anderson avoided what he called the trite "dancing natives on the beach," so popular in the
- Anne McLean translates Vásquez’s generally artful prose, with the latter being an author who doesn’t indulge in trite metaphor.
- (Notice how wrong trite is for this slot, how it ruins things in the worst of ways, how a different word might make it all rite/right.).
- This butterfly effect is cited so frequently that the example has become trite, which is too bad because society still behaves as if the phenomenon does not exist.
- He is liberal in trite reflections and frigid conceits (i. 19, 55, 97, 103, 107, in fact everywhere); and his puns run through whole lines; this in fine Sanskrit style is inevitable.
- Although the principle has its detractors – it has been called a trite and circular argument – its importance in the development of ecology can not be overstated for at least two reasons.