well-worn English

Meaning well-worn meaning

What does well-worn mean?

well-worn

— adjective showing signs of much wear or use

— 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 well-worn synonyms

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well-worn English » English

threadbare

shopworn

trite

timeworn

hackneyed

commonplace

tired

old-hat

banal

worn

stock

platitudinous

worn out

wear out

trito

torn

stale

run-down

prosaical

prosaic

played out

outworn

old hat

marred

mangled

eroded

elapsed

careworn

bromidic

battered

attrited