well-worn

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adjective

1. showing signs of much wear or use
• Similar to:
worn
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, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite
• Similar to:
unoriginal
• Derivationally related forms:
triteness (for: trite), commonplace (for: commonplace), banality (for: banal)