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tritical

/ˈtɹɪtɪkəl/

tritical adjective: trite.

Adjective

tritical (comparative more tritical, superlative most tritical)

  1. (obsolete) trite
    • his conjectures often betray a want either of discernment or of experience; and he appears, from a tritical philosophy, to have carried his uncommon credulity, and a peculiar propensity to the marvellous, into our British, Roman, and Dano-Saxon Archaeology.1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington

Forms of tritical

comparativemore tritical
superlativemost tritical

Origin of tritical

Formed from trite, in imitation of critical.

Questions about tritical

What does tritical mean?
Tritical means trite.
What part of speech is tritical?
Tritical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce tritical?
Tritical is pronounced /ˈtɹɪtɪkəl/.

Words near tritical in the dictionary

  1. tritiated water
  2. tritiates
  3. tritiating
  4. tritiation
  5. tritiations
  6. tritical
  7. triticale
  8. triticales
  9. triticalities
  10. triticality
  11. tritically

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