English dictionary

trite

adjective

Pronunciation

/tɹaɪt/ /tɹaɪt/

Audio pronunciation

Parts of speech

adjective noun

Definitions

adjective

  1. 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.
  2. So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.

noun

  1. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
  2. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
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