timeworn English

Meaning timeworn meaning

What does timeworn mean?

timeworn

— adjective (= commonplace, hackneyed, stock, threadbare, 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'

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timeworn English » English

well-worn

threadbare

shopworn

trite

tired

old-hat

hackneyed

commonplace

banal

stock

worn

trito

torn

stale

run-down

played out

platitudinous

old hat

obsolete

marred

mangled

eroded

elapsed

decrepitude

careworn

bromidic

battered

attrited

antiquated