Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a.
Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a
shop.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shopworn
adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn
merchandise at half price" [syn: 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, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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