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Synonyms for trite
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Princeton's WordNet
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-wornadjective
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'"
Antonyms:
original
Dictionary of English Synonymes
triteadjective
Synonyms:
common, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, beaten, worn out, common-place
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
triteadjective
Synonyms:
hackneyed, banal, commonplace
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4263 | familiar | |
#4450 | obvious | |
#7827 | worn | |
#12556 | trivial | |
#24522 | mundane | |
#25360 | stale | |
#27935 | commonplace | |
#46345 | corny | |
#54520 | trite | |
#57722 | banal | |
#62954 | unremarkable | |
#100279 | threadbare | |
#101506 | hackneyed |
How to use trite in a sentence?
I'm all for coming and enjoying the islands, but( I) encourage people to find ways to be part of the solution, it might be trite, but spend your money locally.
Enjoy life, accentuate the positive, not the negative. It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say, ‘Hey, that was great!’ It’s not hard to find great stuff if you look.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
The exploration space is not full of wonderful opportunities, what are we looking at? It's trite to say the battery minerals sector is attracting a lot of interest and we are obviously looking at that. We include in that copper.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.
Translations for trite
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- تافهArabic
- banální, vyčpělýCzech
- platt, nichtssagend, abgedroschen, banalGerman
- κοινότοπος, τετριμμένοςGreek
- trivial, cliché, lugar común, manido, tópico, trilladoSpanish
- kulunutFinnish
- banal, trivialFrench
- seanchaiteIrish
- shenn-cheaut, ceautManx
- triteHindi
- elcsépelt, banális, elkoptatottHungarian
- trivialaIdo
- banaleItalian
- נדושHebrew
- ありふれた, 陳腐Japanese
- 흔한Korean
- afgezaagd, versleten, banaalDutch
- banal, gastoPortuguese
- затасканный, избитый, шаблонный, банальныйRussian
- trivialSwedish
- సామాన్యమైనTelugu
- triteVietnamese
- טרייטYiddish
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