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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing signs of much wear or use;

2. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
- Example: "bromidic sermons"
- Example: "his remarks were trite and commonplace"
- Example: "hackneyed phrases"
- Example: "a stock answer"
- Example: "repeating threadbare jokes"
- Example: "parroting some timeworn axiom"
- Example: "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
[syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

well-worn
    adj 1: showing signs of much wear or use
    2: 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]