Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed.
- adj. Archaic Frayed or worn out by use.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rubbed; frayed; worn.
- Hence Used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; commonplace; worn out; hackneyed; stale.
- n. In ancient Greek music, the third tone (from the top) of the conjunct, disjunct, and extreme tetrachords. See tetrachord.
Wiktionary
- adj. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
- n. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
- n. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Etymologies
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- Latin trītus, from past participle of terere, to wear out; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Why do fools speak in trite cliched meaningless phrasing?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
“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.”
“Indeed, I suppose it can not be called a trite saying in the true sense of the term.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trite’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
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GRE 2014
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2nd part
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
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The Spoken Word
Words relating to Conversation
adage, adamant, brusque, candor, cavil, compelling, didactic, disparage, emphatic, facetious, frank, fulminate and 7 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, renown, allude, refer, content and 109 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
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new words
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Magoosh GRE
its a list of words borrowed from Magoosh GRE blog ,an indispensable resource for GRE test takers.
inimitable, exiguity, myriad, cornucopia, surfeit, glut, deluge, opaque, pellucid, grandiloquent, turgid, gadfly and 106 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
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alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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