a. | 1. | Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; |
Adj. | 1. | trite - 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: hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn, shopworn, banal, commonplace |