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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. 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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hackney \Hack"ney\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hackneyed (-n[i^]d);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Hackneying.]
   1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or
      carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or
      commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
      [1913 Webster]

            Had I so lavish of my presence been,
            So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. --Shak.
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   2. To carry in a hackney coach. --Cowper.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hackneyed
    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]