trite
adjective
1 trite
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse:
— His remarks were trite and commonplace.
— The trite metaphor `hard as nails'.
synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn.
Roget 490:
knowing
etc.
v.;
cognitive;
acroamatic†.
aware of,
cognizant of,
conscious of;
acquainted with,
made acquainted with;
privy to,
no stranger to;
au fait with,
au courant;
in the secret;
up to,
alive to;
behind the scenes,
behind the curtain;
let into;
apprized of,
informed of;
undeceived.
proficient with,
versed with,
read with,
forward with,
strong with,
at home in;
conversant with,
familiar with.
erudite,
instructed,
leaned,
lettered,
educated;
well conned,
well informed,
well read,
well grounded,
well educated;
enlightened,
shrewd,
savant,
blue,
bookish,
scholastic,
solid,
profound,
deep-read,
book-learned;
accomplished
etc.
(skillful)
698;
omniscient;
self-taught.
known
etc.
v.;
ascertained,
well-known,
recognized,
received,
notorious,
noted;
proverbial;
familiar,
familiar as household words,
familiar to every schoolboy;
hackneyed,
trite,
trivial,
commonplace.
cognoscible†,
cognizable.
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Roget 613:
habitual;
accustomary†;
prescriptive,
accustomed
etc.
v.;
of daily occurrence,
of everyday occurrence;
consuetudinary†;
wonted,
usual,
general,
ordinary,
common,
frequent,
everyday,
household,
garden variety,
jog,
trot;
well-trodden,
well-known;
familiar,
vernacular,
trite,
commonplace,
conventional,
regular,
set,
stock,
established,
stereotyped;
prevailing,
prevalent;
current,
received,
acknowledged,
recognized,
accredited;
of course,
admitted,
understood.
conformable.
etc.
82;
according to use,
according to custom,
according to routine;
in vogue,
in fashion,
in,
with it;
fashionable
etc.
(genteel)
852.
wont;
used to,
given to,
addicted to,
attuned to,
habituated
etc.
v.;
in the habit of;
habitue;
at home in
etc.
(skillful)
698;
seasoned;
imbued with;
devoted to,
wedded to.
hackneyed,
fixed,
rooted,
deep-rooted,
ingrafted†,
permanent,
inveterate,
besetting;
naturalized;
ingrained
etc.
(intrinsic)
5.
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Polish: banalny
Moby thesaurus: airy, asinine, automatic, back-number, banal, bathetic, beaten, bedridden, bewhiskered, bromidic, catchpenny, chain, cliche, cliched, common, commonly known, commonplace, constant, corny, current, cut-and-dried, drained, dull, empty, exhausted, fade, familiar, fatuous, flat, flimsy, foolish, frequent, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fusty, futile, habitual, hack, hackney, hackneyed, household, idle, inane, jejune, light, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, notorious, nugacious, nugatory, old hat, ordinary, otiose, overworked, persistent, platitudinous, prosaic, proverbial, public, ready-made, recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, set, shallow, shopworn, silly, slender, slight, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, superficial, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trifling, trivial, truistic, twice-told, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal, used up, vacuous, vain, vapid, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, windy, worn, worn thin, worn-out ... show more.
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