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triteness

/trahyt/US // traɪt //UK // (traɪt) //

白话,白话文,白费力气,陈腐

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    trit·er, trit·est.

    • : lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
    • : characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.: The commencement address was trite and endlessly long.
    • : Archaic. rubbed or worn by use.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inplatitude

Examples

  • He grimaced at the triteness of the words, at the same time realizing that a basic truth lurked there.

  • The meagerness and triteness of the music and piece astonished me.

  • Our minds become easily deadened to its real import, and the examples we cite in illustration of it have an air of triteness.

  • Mrs. Weaver made this latter announcement with an air of triumph in its triteness.

  • Don Luis Perenna had begun to read in emphatic tones, bringing out the imbecility of the words and the triteness of the rhythm.