Unoriginal
The crossword clue "Unoriginal" is answered by TRITE, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRITE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRITE answer page.
Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TRITE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRITE, most used first.
- Hackneyed - used 137 times, most recently in 2026
- Overused - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Banal - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Stale - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
- Like a cliché - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Old hat - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
- Commonplace - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
- Overdone - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Shopworn - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
- Far from fresh - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
- Done to death - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Corny - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
- Cliched - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Stereotyped. - used 10 times, most recently in 2000
- Humdrum - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Lacking originality - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Played out - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Threadbare - used 9 times, most recently in 1998
- Cornball - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Overused, as an expression - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Unimaginative - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- No longer fresh - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Overused, as a phrase - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Platitudinous - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Cliche - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Cliche-ridden - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Unoriginal - BANAL, used 17 times
- Boringly unoriginal - BANAL, used 6 times
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