shopworn English

Meaning shopworn meaning

What does shopworn mean?

shopworn

— adjective worn or faded from being on display in a store shopworn merchandise at half price

— adjective (= commonplace, hackneyed, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite) 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'

Synonyms shopworn synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as shopworn?

shopworn English » English

well-worn

threadbare

hackneyed

trite

timeworn

commonplace

tired

old-hat

banal

stock

shopsoiled

platitudinous

worn out

worn

trito

torn

stale

run-down

prosaical

prosaic

played out

overused

outworn

old hat

marred

mangled

eroded

elapsed

careworn

bromidic

battered

attrited

Topics shopworn topics

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Speak poorly

• What words describe something that has been said so often that people think it is stupid?
  trite over-used stale banal be wearing thin threadbare clichéd corny hackneyed shopworn stereotyped commonplace