Definitions for trite

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Spelling: [trahyt]
IPA: /traɪt/

Trite is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in trite (eirtt).

Definitions for trite

adjective

  1. lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale:
  2. characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.:
  3. Archaic. rubbed or worn by use.

Origin of trite

1540-50; Latin trītus worn, common, equivalent to trī- (variant stem of terere to rub, wear down) + -tus past participle suffix

Examples for trite

Did something so trite really belong on the letters page of the world's most important newspaper?

This last jest is so trite to-day as to be absolutely threadbare.

The show may be trite, but Disney wisely had theater favorite Harvey Fierstein write the book.

It would be trite to dwell on the particulars of her after story.

The things Lindsay shows Lohan doing should be trite and calming.

It is a trite remark that diamonds can be polished only by diamond dust.

For a while they talked of trite and inconsequential things.

They also have to be two words, and neither of them can be "exotic" or "trite," or commercial trademarks, or the word "operation."

Instinct is a sure guide, it always tends to what is useful and trite.

The Daily Pic: A watercolor shows how the great painter mixed the radical and the trite.

Word Value for trite
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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