Cliches vs Trite - What's the difference?
cliches | trite |
Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
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A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
As nouns the difference between cliches and trite
is that cliches is plural of cliche while trite is a denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.As an adjective trite is
worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).trite
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From (etyl) .Adjective
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