trite
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: trīt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹaɪt/Category:English 1-syllable words#TRITECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TRITE
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /tɹaɪt/, (Canadian raising) [tɹʌɪt]Category:English 1-syllable words#TRITECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TRITE
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /tɹɑet/Category:English 1-syllable words#TRITECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TRITE
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /tɹaɪt/, [tɹɑe̯t]Category:English 1-syllable words#TRITECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TRITE
- Homophone: tryteCategory:English terms with homophones#TRITE
- Rhymes: -aɪtCategory:Rhymes:English/aɪt#TRITECategory:Rhymes:English/aɪt/1 syllable#TRITE
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#TRITECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *terh₁-#TRITEFrom LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#TRITE trītus (“worn out”)Category:English undefined derivations#TRITE, perfect passive participle of terō (“to wear away, wear out”).
Adjective
trite (comparative triter, superlative tritest)Category:English lemmas#TRITECategory:English adjectives#TRITECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TRITECategory:Pages with entries#TRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TRITE
- 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.
- Synonyms: banal, clichéd, played out; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed
- 1897, W. B. Kimberly, History of West Australia : A Narrative of Her Past together with Biographies of Her Leading Men:
- It is a trite saying in a young country that anyone starting out in life with the determination to become wealthy will have his wish gratified.Category:English terms with quotations#TRITE
- 1994, Anthony Bergin, “The High Seas Regime – Pacific Trends and Developments”, in James Crawford, Donald R. Rothwell, editors, The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region: Developments and Prospects, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 183:
- It is trite history – and trite law – to say that the law of the sea since that time [World War II] reflects a history of coastal State expansion.Category:English terms with quotations#TRITE
- 2007, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 267:
- McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman! On yehr fahrst date, don’t bring her cut flowers! That’s inhumane! And trite!Category:English terms with quotations#TRITE
- 2025 March 4, Marina Hyde, “It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way”, in The Guardian:
- This show is sensationally absurd and trite, and if you watch it, you know it.Category:English terms with quotations#TRITE
- (lawCategory:en:Law#TRITE) So well establishedCategory:English links with manual fragments#TRITE as to be beyond debate: trite law.
- 2017, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Taucar v Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, 2017 ONSC 2604:
- It is trite to say that the mere fact that a decision does not favour the applicant or that the applicant disagrees with the decision does not establish that the decision is tainted with bias.
- 2017, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Taucar v Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, 2017 ONSC 2604:
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Etymology 2
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Noun
trite (plural trites)Category:English lemmas#TRITECategory:English nouns#TRITECategory:English countable nouns#TRITECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TRITECategory:Pages with entries#TRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TRITE
- A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
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Etymology 3
Unadapted borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#TRITECategory:English unadapted borrowings from Latin#TRITECategory:English terms derived from Latin#TRITE tritē, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#TRITE τρίτη (trítē, literally “third [string]”).
Noun
trite (plural trites)Category:English lemmas#TRITECategory:English nouns#TRITECategory:English countable nouns#TRITECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TRITECategory:Pages with entries#TRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TRITE
- (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lower-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the paranete and higher than the paramese.
Usage notes
- The strings/pitches from lowest-pitched (nearest the player) to highest-pitched (farthest from the player) were the hypate, parhypate, lichanos, mese, paramese, trite, paranete and nete, grouped into two tetrachords, the nearer one stretching from hypate to mese and the farther one stretching from paramese to nete. The outer two notes in a tetrachord were fixed in pitch but the inner two notes could be tuned differently.
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Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
triteCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#TRITECategory:Italian adjective forms#TRITECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#TRITECategory:Pages with entries#TRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TRITE
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
trīteCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#TRITECategory:Latin participle forms#TRITECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#TRITECategory:Pages with entries#TRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TRITE
References
- “trite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trite”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Tocharian B
Etymology
Compare Tocharian A trit
Adjective
triteCategory:Tocharian B lemmas#TRITECategory:Tocharian B adjectives#TRITECategory:Tocharian B entries with incorrect language header#TRITECategory:Pages with entries#TRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TRITE