Usually means: Overused and consequently lacking freshness.
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  1. trite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trite: Merriam-Webster
  3. trite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trite: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trite: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trite, trite: Wordnik
  8. trite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trite: Wiktionary
  10. trite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trite: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trite: Dictionary.com
  14. trite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Trite (disambiguation), Trite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trite: Rhymezone
  20. trite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trite: FreeDictionary.org
  22. trite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. trite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. trite: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trite: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trite: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trite: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (law) So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.
noun:  A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.

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