trite

trite
    adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
           "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and
           commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer";
           "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn
           axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn:
           {banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {old-hat},
           {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
           {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
    

Trite \Trite\ (tr[imac]t), a. [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to
   rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See {Throw}, and
   cf. {Contrite}, {Detriment}, {Tribulation}, {Try}.]
   Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost
   novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a
   trite subject. -- {Trite"ly}, adv. -- {Trite"ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    

107 Moby Thesaurus words for "trite":
      airy, asinine, automatic, back-number, banal, bathetic, beaten,
      bedridden, bewhiskered, bromidic, catchpenny, chain, cliche,
      cliched, common, commonly known, commonplace, constant, corny,
      current, cut-and-dried, drained, dull, empty, exhausted, fade,
      familiar, fatuous, flat, flimsy, foolish, frequent, fribble,
      fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fusty, futile, habitual, hack,
      hackney, hackneyed, household, idle, inane, jejune, light,
      mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, notorious, nugacious, nugatory,
      old hat, ordinary, otiose, overworked, persistent, platitudinous,
      prosaic, proverbial, public, ready-made, recurrent, recurring,
      regular, repetitive, routine, set, shallow, shopworn, silly,
      slender, slight, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, superficial,
      talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trifling,
      trivial, truistic, twice-told, universally admitted,
      universally recognized, unoriginal, used up, vacuous, vain, vapid,
      warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized,
      well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, windy,
      worn, worn thin, worn-out