Adjective: trite (triter,tritest) trIt
- Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
"his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "the trite metaphor ‘hard as nails’"; "his remarks were trite and banal";
- banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat [informal], shopworn [N. Amer], stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn, shop-soiled [Brit]
Derived forms: triter, tritest
See also: clichéd, cornball [N. Amer, informal], hacky [informal], unoriginal
Encyclopedia: Trite