exciting vs trite

exciting

noun
  • The process of something becoming excited; excitation. 

adj
  • creating or producing excitement 

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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