well-worn

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
well-worn
    adj 1: showing signs of much wear or use
    2: 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}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "well-worn":
      automatic, back-number, banal, bare, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic,
      common, commonplace, constant, corny, cut-and-dried, deep-worn,
      dog-eared, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hackney,
      hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, persistent, platitudinous,
      recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, sere, set,
      shelfworn, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare,
      timeworn, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known,
      well-trodden, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags,
      worn to threads, worn-down

    

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