trite
adjective
1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- his remarks were trite and commonplace
- the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
Similar word(s): unoriginal, banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired
noun
1. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
2. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.