Crossword-Solution: TRITE 5 letters, 159 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Trite	a.	Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TRITE	anagram	TETRI, TITER, TITRE, TRIET

We have 159 clues for the answer “TRITE”

Clue	Answers
Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues	1 answer
Beaten to death	1 answer
Clichélike.	1 answer
Contemptibly familiar	1 answer
Done to extremes	1 answer
Hackneyed or unimaginative	1 answer
Heard all too often	1 answer
Heard too much	1 answer
Heard too often	1 answer
Lacking in freshness	1 answer
Like "Have a nice day," for example	1 answer
Like "Hot enough for you?"	1 answer
Like "It is what it is"	1 answer
Like "old as the hills"	1 answer
Like a cliche	1 answer
Like a played out joke	1 answer
Like a stock quote?	1 answer
Like a sunset at the end of a movie	1 answer
Like a thrice-told tale	1 answer
Like a worn-out maxim	1 answer
Like an old chestnut	1 answer
Like an old cliche	1 answer
Like cornball humor	1 answer
Like hackneyed writing	1 answer
Like many a cliché	1 answer
Like overly rehearsed comments, probably	1 answer
Like overused crossword clues	1 answer
Like seen-it-all-before writing	1 answer
Like stale expressions	1 answer
Like the expressions "a dime a dozen" and "a penny for your thoughts"	1 answer
Like the invitation line "Be there or be square"	1 answer
Like the saying "You win some, you lose some"	1 answer
Meaningless from repetition.	1 answer
Much too familiar	1 answer
Much-heard	1 answer
Much-seen-before	1 answer
No longer original	1 answer
Not novel	1 answer
Not remotely fresh	1 answer
Often heard before	1 answer
Old as Methuselah, in a way	1 answer
Overused and lacking originality	1 answer
Over-heard	1 answer
Overly common	1 answer
Overly familiar, as a phrase	1 answer
Overly familiar, in a way	1 answer
Overly used	1 answer
Overly used, as expressions	1 answer
Overused, as a phrase	1 answer
Overused, as a saying	1 answer

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Kind of apple

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TRITE (5)

Still, to a close observer, they are just as perceptible; the difference is that their media of manifestation are less trite and familiar than such well-known ones as the bursting of the buds or the fall of the leaf.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Smith, for it is so seldom in this desert that I meet with a man who is gentleman and scholar enough to continue a quotation, however trite it may be.” “I also apply the words to myself,” said Stephen quietly.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

They were monuments of laborious, elaborate neatness, the trite moralities and ready-made aphorisms of the philanthropists and publicists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

This is trite to sickness; but familiarity has a cunning disenchantment; in a day or two she can steal all beauty from the mountain tops; and the most startling words begin to fall dead upon the ear after several repetitions.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Your father, I scarcely like to remind you, since it is so trite a commonplace, is older than yourself.

Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with TRITE (3)

Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased. She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy. The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line. The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls. Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last sc…

Melissa de la Cruz Revelations

Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along, strong and brave in spirit, and gave him an helping hand. That's all very well and plausible in novels, but in life... Sasha: In life it's the same. Ivanov: I see you have a fine understanding of life!

Anton Chekhov Ivanov

the mystic must be steadily told, — All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric, — universal signs, instead of these village symbols, — and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 468 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).