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Tortuous vs Trite - What's the difference?

tortuous | trite |

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)
  • Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
  • * 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
  • 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.
  • * Macaulay
  • The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
  • (obsolete) injurious; tortious
  • (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
  • * Skeat
  • 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

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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, '' Girls with Slingshots: 267
  • McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman! On yehr fahrst date, don’t bring her cut flowers! That’s inhumane! And trite !
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    Etymology 2

    (en) (wikipedia trite)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.
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