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threadbare

adjective

1 threadbare

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse:
— Repeating threadbare jokes.

synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn.

Roget 226: divested etc. v.; bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ... show more

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more

Polish: banalny

2 threadbare

Having the nap worn away so that the threads show through.


Moby thesaurus: back-number, banal, bare, bathetic, bewhiskered, boring, bromidic, cliche, cliche-ridden, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, cut-and-dried, damaged, deep-worn, dilapidated, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-heel ... show more.

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