Conventional vs. Trite

Conventionaladjective

Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

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.

Conventionaladjective

Ordinary, commonplace.

‘They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.’;

Triteadjective

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

Conventionaladjective

Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.

Tritenoun

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

Conventionaladjective

(weapons) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.

Tritenoun

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

Conventionaladjective

(agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

Triteadjective

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

Conventionaladjective

(bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.

Triteadjective

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'’;

Conventionalnoun

(finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

Triteadjective

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

‘this point may now seem obvious and trite’;

Conventionaladjective

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

‘Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.’;

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.

Conventionaladjective

Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.

‘The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.’; ‘The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional.’;

Conventionaladjective

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

Conventionaladjective

following accepted customs and proprieties;

‘conventional wisdom’; ‘she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior’; ‘conventional forms of address’; ‘unconventional life styles’;

Conventionaladjective

conforming with accepted standards;

‘a conventional view of the world’;

Conventionaladjective

(weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction;

‘conventional warfare’; ‘conventional weapons’;

Conventionaladjective

unimaginative and conformist;

‘conventional bourgeois lives’; ‘conventional attitudes’;

Conventionaladjective

represented in simplified or symbolic form

Conventionaladjective

in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past;

‘a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white’; ‘the conventional handshake’;

Conventionaladjective

rigidly formal or bound by convention;

‘their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt’;