HyperDic: timeworn

English > 1 sense of the word timeworn:
ADJECTIVEalltimeworn, banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-wornrepeated / repeated too often
English > timeworn: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningrepeated / repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
Example "parroting some timeworn axiom"
Synonymsbanal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn
Broaderunoriginalnot original
Spanishbanal, gastado, manida, manido, sabida, sobada, sobado, trillada, trillado, trivial
Catalanbanal

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