Tortuous vs Trite - What's the difference?
tortuous | trite |
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
* 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
* Macaulay
(obsolete) injurious; tortious
(astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
* Skeat
Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
* 2007 , Danielle Corsetto, ''
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 adjectives the difference between tortuous and trite
is that tortuous is twisted; having many turns; convoluted while 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).As a noun trite is
a denomination of coinage in ancient greece equivalent to one third of a stater.tortuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
- The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
- Infortunate ascendent tortuous .
Usage notes
* This term has strongly negative connotations, perhaps transferred from the similar-sounding adjective torturous . * Not to be confused with the legal term tortious .trite
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
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