threadbare English

Meaning threadbare meaning

What does threadbare mean?

threadbare

— adjective (= commonplace, hackneyed, stock, 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'

— adjective having the nap worn away so that the threads show through threadbare rugs

Synonyms threadbare synonyms

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

threadbare English » English

shabby

trite

ragged

worn

well-worn

shopworn

timeworn

tattered

hackneyed

commonplace

worn out

tired

old-hat

banal

worn-out

seedy

torn

stock

stale

run-down

platitudinous

old

frayed

dilapidated

decrepit

battered

worn through

weak

used up

trito

time-worn

slummy

shot

shoddy

rickety

raggedy

prosaical

prosaic

played out

overworn

outworn

outmoded

old hat

old fashioned

obsolete article

obsolete

niggardly

moth-eaten

marred

mangled

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• 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