English-Thai Dictionary

trite

ADJ ซ้ำๆ ซากๆ  น่าเบื่อหน่าย  sam-sam-sak-sak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRITE

a.[L. tritus, from tero, to wear. ] Worn out; common; used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; as a trite remark; a trite subject.

 

TRITELY

adv. In a common manner.

 

TRITENESS

n.Commonness; staleness; a state of being worn out; as the triteness of an observation or a subject.

 

TRITERNATE

a.[L. tres, three, and ternate. ] Having three biternate leaves, or the divisions of a triple petiole subdivided into threes; a species of superdecompound leaf.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TRITE

Trite, a. Etym: [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See Throw, and cf. Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try. ]

 

Defn: Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite "ly, adv. -- Trite "ness, n.

 

TRITERNATE

Tri *ter "nate, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + ternate. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

trite

trite |trīt traɪt | ▶adjective (of a remark, opinion, or idea ) overused and consequently of little import; lacking originality or freshness: this point may now seem obvious and trite. DERIVATIVES trite ly adverb, trite ness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin tritus, past participle of terere ‘to rub. ’

 

triterpene

tri ter pene |trīˈtərpēn traɪˈtərpin | ▶noun Chemistry any of a group of terpenes found in plant gums and resins, having unsaturated molecules based on a unit with the formula C 30 H 48. DERIVATIVES tri ter pe noid |-pəˌnoid |adjective & noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

trite

trite |trʌɪt | ▶adjective (of a remark or idea ) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse: this point may now seem obvious and trite. DERIVATIVES tritely adverb, triteness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin tritus, past participle of terere ‘to rub ’.

 

triterpene

triterpene |trʌɪˈtəːpiːn | ▶noun Chemistry any of a group of terpenes found in plant gums and resins, having unsaturated molecules based on a unit with the formula C 30 H 48. DERIVATIVES triterpenoid adjective & noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

trite

trite adjective critics were put off by the trite dialogue: banal, hackneyed, clichéd, platitudinous, vapid, commonplace, stock, conventional, stereotyped, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, timeworn, tired, hoary, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninteresting, dull; informal old hat, corny, cornball, cheesy, boilerplate. ANTONYMS original, imaginative.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

trite

trite adjective the observation struck me as both trite and irrelevant: hackneyed, banal, clichéd, platitudinous, vapid, commonplace, ordinary, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable; stale, overused, overworked, overdone, worn out, time-worn, tired, threadbare, hoary, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, derivative, uninspired, dull, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, routine, humdrum; informal old hat, corny, played out; N. Amer. informal cornball, dime-store; rare truistic, bromidic. ANTONYMS original, fresh, imaginative. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD trite, hackneyed, stale All these words suggest a lack of originality, generally springing from laziness on the part of a speaker or writer. ■ A trite remark is intrinsically banal or shallow (trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ). While it is not likely to contain anything that someone could disagree with, it is an easy option, which may cause offence in contexts where one should have made a greater effort (trite answers for grieving people ). ■ A hackneyed theme or idea has been overused, often because it is an easy trigger for emotion (hackneyed dramatic devices | the hackneyed image of the poor benighted savage ). There is a sense that a hackneyed phrase, idea, or image is used mindlessly, even to the point of dishonesty: it may well still have some emotional impact, but this may not be justified by the context in which it is used. ■ Stale expressions and ideas were once telling or valid but have been repeated so often that they have lost their force (the jokes are a bit stale ).These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Duden Dictionary

Triterium

Tri te ri um Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Trit e rium |das Triterium; Genitiv: des Triteriums griechisch-neulateinisch Tritium

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

trite

trite /traɪt /形容詞 〈語句 思想などが 〉ありふれた, 使い古された, 陳腐な .tr í te ly 副詞 tr í te ness 名詞