shopworn
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shopworn
adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn
merchandise at half price" [syn: {shopworn},
{shopsoiled}]
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
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "shopworn":
bare, cliche, cliched, deep-worn, dog-eared, hackneyed, overused,
overworked, sere, shelfworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired,
well-worn, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads,
worn-down, worn-out
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