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[syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
timeworn
    adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
           "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and
           commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer";
           "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn
           axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn:
           banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat,
           shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
           tired, trite, well-worn]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "time-worn":
   ageing, ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, broken-down, dated,
   decrepit, dilapidated, dog-eared, hackneyed, moth-eaten,
   obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, overused,
   passe, ragged, ramshackle, run-down, seedy, shabby, stale,
   stereotyped, threadbare, time-scarred, tired, trite, tumbledown,
   well-worn, worn, worn out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "timeworn":
   age-old, aged, anile, antediluvian, antique, back-number, banal,
   bare, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common, commonplace, corny,
   crabbed, crumbling, cut-and-dried, debilitated, decrepit,
   deep-worn, dilapidated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dog-eared,
   dusty, fade, familiar, feeble, fossilized, fusty, gerontal,
   gerontic, gone to seed, hack, hackney, hackneyed, hoary, infirm,
   mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, mossbacked, moth-eaten,
   mummylike, musty, old, old hat, palsied, papery-skinned,
   platitudinous, ravaged with age, rickety, ruined, ruinous,
   run to seed, rusty, senile, sere, set, shaky, shelfworn, shopworn,
   shriveled, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stricken in years,
   threadbare, time-scarred, tottering, tottery, trite, truistic,
   unoriginal, venerable, warmed-over, weak, well-known, well-worn,
   withered, wizened, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags,
   worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out