Trite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• in Greek music, the third string of the lyre
• (on a lyre) the third string from the highest in pitch
ADJECTIVE:
• banal, commonplace
• (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse
• (of a remark or idea) commonplace and unoriginal
• Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• used so often as to be made commonplace

Words related to TRITE

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Words that contain TRITE

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How to use TRITE in a sentence

• Calls some of his contrivances trite, stale, and poor.
• And then, truly, they are for helping me out with some of their trite and vulgar artifices.
• Owen and his parallellograms trite and flat, and will, we suspect, take an opportunity to escape from them! Mr.
• It is but repeating a trite remark to say that happiness depends more upon organization than upon circumstances, more upon what we are than upon what we have.
• Books could be written of the truth of this particular trite saying.
• How much may happen between the lighting of a candle and its burning away! Smiling at this trite reflection, he blew that light out, and, taking another, went to his room.
• It is a truth almost too trite for reference, that in the experience of every one of us there are some days in in which everything seems to go wrong.
• As I watched her moving with majestic grace across the stage, irrepressible though trite reflections upon her early career passed through my mind.
• And if what I am saying appears to you trite, I am glad of it, because it shows that on the substantial facts we are at one and need no argument.
• But though the device be trite, the lyrical diction of the opera is most beautifully sweet and flowing.
• This is well known and a trite saying in our holy order.
• It is also a trite observation that, in the business of life, we constantly take the most serious action upon evidence of an utterly insufficient character.
• I was ashamed to think that no desk or study was likely to have produced better on so trite a subject.
• At any other time she would have been humiliated and astonished to hear herself make such cut-and-dried remarks, such little trite observations.
• The only way to learn base-ball is to play it, and it is a trite saying that the best practice for a ball player is base-ball itself.
• Trite enough, I have no doubt, were the thoughts that possessed me as I stood gazing.
• Here we have some pleasant glimpses of a bygone era, many trite reflections, but not enough topography to make the book one of permanent interest.
• The nearer the enemy, the more characteristic that trite observation of those who have followed the roads of war in Europe.
• That India is a continent rather than a country is a statement so often repeated that it has become trite.
• His style of argument was neither trite nor vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse.
• He smiled, but at the same time he felt a little ashamed of himself, the weapons were so trite, and it was so easy to manage an unworldly-wise and romantic girl.
• In like manner, the true orator should avoid the trite and vulgar.
• V TRANSIT AND HOTELS The choice of such a trite topic as the means of travel may seem to denote that my observations in the United States must have been superficial.
• His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse.
• How strangely different the actual values of existence were from the emphasized, trite moments and emotions.
• Love her, and you entered into a new world, you passed from this trite and commonplace earth.
• He vaguely realized an indirect confession expressed in that trite remark made by Rosas.
• They were a trite large when on, but to the hands unaccustomed to gloves they were like being run into a mould.
• It was a trite saying, shut up the cave in your heart and smother or put out the bad spirit.

Similar words containing TR without suffix ite

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