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trite 音标拼音: [tr'ɑɪt] a. 平庸的,陈腐的,平凡的,用坏的 平庸的,陈腐的,平凡的,用坏的 trite adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; " bromidic sermons"; " his remarks were trite and commonplace"; " hackneyed phrases"; " a stock answer"; " repeating threadbare jokes"; " parroting some timeworn axiom"; " the trite metaphor ` hard as nails'" [ synonym: { banal}, { commonplace}, { hackneyed}, { old- hat}, { shopworn}, { stock( a)}, { threadbare}, { timeworn}, { tired}, { trite}, { well- worn}] Trite \ Trite\ ( tr[ imac] t), a. [ L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See { Throw}, and cf. { Contrite}, { Detriment}, { Tribulation}, { Try}.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 107 Moby Thesaurus words for " trite": 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
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