Triste vs. Trite

Tristeadjective

(rare) sad.

Tristenoun

A cattle fair.

Triteadjective

Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.

Triteadjective

(legal) So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.

Tritenoun

A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.

Tritenoun

Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.

Triteadjective

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

Triteadjective

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

Triteadjective

(of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse

Trite

Trite is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. Most of the 18 described species occur in Australia and New Zealand, with several spread over islands of Oceania, one species even reaching Rapa in French Polynesia.