lifeless vs trite

lifeless

adj
  • dull or lacking vitality 

  • inanimate; having no life 

  • dead; having lost life 

  • uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 

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. 

How often have the words lifeless and trite occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )