[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trite \trite\ trimact, 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
see also:
throw contrite detriment tribulation try trite"ly 
trite"ness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

trite
     adj : 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'" syn: banal, commonplace,
            hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stocka, threadbare,
            timeworn, tired, well-worn
see also:
banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stocka 
threadbare timeworn tired well-worn 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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