| 单词 | trite |
| 释义 | trite (once / 4050 pages) adj When you want to indicate that something is silly or overused, you would call it trite. A love song with lyrics about holding hands in the sunshine? Totally trite. Trite has a Latin root, the past participle of terere, meaning "wear out." An old-fashioned or outdated definition of the word is "frayed or worn out by use," and you can see how the meaning for an object that is worn out can be applied to an idea that has been used to the point of being meaningless. The antonym of this word is original. WORD FAMILYtrite: tritely, triteness, tritest USAGE EXAMPLESEven the most trite Netflix drama is too slickly done to be easily switched off. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Somehow, and it might sound trite but who cares – she’d say it as it was – less alone. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) Notwithstanding trite dismissals from the chattering class, it is hard to find a more powerful, life-giving injunction than, “Drain the swamp!” Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) adj repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse the trite metaphor `hard as nails' Syn banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual |
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