timeworn
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timeworn![]() ![]() Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
timeworn
adj 1: 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]
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 34 Moby Thesaurus words for "time-worn": ageing, ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, broken-down, dated, decrepit, dilapidated, dog-eared, hackneyed, moth-eaten, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, overused, passe, ragged, ramshackle, run-down, seedy, shabby, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, time-scarred, tired, trite, tumbledown, well-worn, worn, worn out Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 91 Moby Thesaurus words for "timeworn": age-old, aged, anile, antediluvian, antique, back-number, banal, bare, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, crabbed, crumbling, cut-and-dried, debilitated, decrepit, deep-worn, dilapidated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dog-eared, dusty, fade, familiar, feeble, fossilized, fusty, gerontal, gerontic, gone to seed, hack, hackney, hackneyed, hoary, infirm, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, musty, old, old hat, palsied, papery-skinned, platitudinous, ravaged with age, rickety, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, rusty, senile, sere, set, shaky, shelfworn, shopworn, shriveled, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stricken in years, threadbare, time-scarred, tottering, tottery, trite, truistic, unoriginal, venerable, warmed-over, weak, well-known, well-worn, withered, wizened, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out Matching Word(s) timework
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