trite

Adjective

Synonyms: banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock(a)threadbare timeworn tired well-worn

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (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'”Synonyms: banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock(a)threadbare timeworn tired well-worn

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]