drab vs trite

drab

adj
  • Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting. 

  • Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun. 

noun
  • An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man). 

  • A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable. 

  • A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour. 

  • Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric. 

  • The colour of this fabric. 

  • A small amount, especially of money. 

  • A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. 

trite

adj
  • 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. 

  • So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law. 

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

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

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