well-worn
adj 1: showing signs of much wear or use
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "well-worn":
automatic, back-number, banal, bare, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic,
common, commonplace, constant, corny, cut-and-dried, deep-worn,
dog-eared, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hackney,
hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, persistent, platitudinous,
recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, sere, set,
shelfworn, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare,
timeworn, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known,
well-trodden, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags,
worn to threads, worn-down
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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