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trite

The correct spelling is trite.

How to pronounce trite

/tɹaɪt/
adjective

IPA: /tɹaɪt/

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The correct spelling is 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.

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Meanings

adjective

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

noun

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

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