Difference between Threadbare and Trite

What is the difference between Threadbare and Trite?

Threadbare as an adjective is shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show while Trite as an adjective is worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).

Threadbare

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show wearing clothes of threadbare material banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

Trite

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Example sentence: It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

We hope you now know whether to use Threadbare or Trite in your sentence.

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