Exact Match:
- cliched
- repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- shopworn
collapse - worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price" related words >
- back-number,
- banal,
- bewhiskered,
- bromidic,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonplace,
- cut-and-dried,
- fade,
- familiar,
- fusty,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- old hat,
- platitudinous,
- set,
- shopworn,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unoriginal,
- warmed-over,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- worn,
- worn thin
- banal
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- 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'" related words >
- asinine,
- average,
- back-number,
- bewhiskered,
- bland,
- bromidic,
- central,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonplace,
- corny,
- cut-and-dried,
- everyday,
- fade,
- familiar,
- fatuous,
- flat,
- fusty,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- hoary,
- humdrum,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- jejune,
- mean,
- medial,
- median,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middling,
- milk-and-water,
- moderate,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- namby-pamby,
- normal,
- old,
- old hat,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- petty,
- platitudinous,
- routine,
- sapless,
- set,
- silly,
- simple,
- square,
- stale,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- trivial,
- truistic,
- unimaginative,
- unoriginal,
- usual,
- vapid,
- warmed-over,
- waterish,
- watery,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- wishy-washy,
- worn,
- worn thin
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- archaic,
- automatic,
- back-number,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- beaten,
- bewhiskered,
- bromidic,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonly known,
- commonplace,
- constant,
- conventional,
- corny,
- current,
- cut-and-dried,
- everyday,
- fade,
- familiar,
- frequent,
- fusty,
- habitual,
- hack,
- hackney,
- household,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- notorious,
- obsolete,
- old hat,
- out-of-date,
- outmoded,
- overworked,
- persistent,
- platitudinous,
- proverbial,
- public,
- quotidian,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- regular,
- repetitive,
- routine,
- set,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- truistic,
- universally admitted,
- universally recognized,
- unoriginal,
- warmed-over,
- well-kenned,
- well-known,
- well-recognized,
- well-trodden,
- well-understood,
- well-worn,
- widely known,
- worn,
- worn thin,
- worn-out
- abstraction,
- banality,
- banalness,
- bathetic,
- bromide,
- byword,
- catch phrase,
- catchword,
- chestnut,
- cliched,
- commonness,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- commonplaceness,
- corn,
- corniness,
- cry,
- fad word,
- familiar tune,
- familiarness,
- fustiness,
- general idea,
- generalization,
- generalized proposition,
- glittering generality,
- hack,
- hackneyed,
- hackneyed expression,
- hackneyed saying,
- hackneyedness,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- mustiness,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- pet expression,
- platitude,
- platitudinousness,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- rubber stamp,
- shibboleth,
- slogan,
- squareness,
- stale,
- staleness,
- stereotype,
- stereotyped saying,
- sweeping statement,
- tag,
- timeworn,
- tired cliche,
- trite saying,
- triteness,
- triticism,
- truism,
- twice-told tale,
- unoriginality,
- vogue word
- stereotyped
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- lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative" related words >
- alike,
- automatic,
- average,
- back-number,
- banal,
- beaten,
- besetting,
- bewhiskered,
- bromidic,
- cliche,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonplace,
- constant,
- corny,
- current,
- cut-and-dried,
- dominant,
- epidemic,
- fade,
- familiar,
- frequent,
- fusty,
- habitual,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- indiscernible,
- indistinct,
- indistinctive,
- indistinguishable,
- interchangeable,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- normal,
- old hat,
- ordinary,
- overworked,
- pandemic,
- persistent,
- platitudinous,
- popular,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- rampant,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- regnant,
- regular,
- reigning,
- repetitive,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- set,
- square,
- stale,
- standard,
- stock,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- truistic,
- undifferentiated,
- undiscriminated,
- undistinguishable,
- undistinguished,
- uniform,
- unoriginal,
- usual,
- warmed-over,
- well-known,
- well-trodden,
- well-worn,
- without distinction,
- worn,
- worn thin,
- worn-out
- threadbare
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- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs" related words >
- 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,
- dull,
- fade,
- faded,
- familiar,
- frayed,
- fusty,
- hack,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- imitative,
- impaired,
- injured,
- monotonous,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- old hat,
- overused,
- overworked,
- platitudinous,
- played out,
- prosaic,
- ragged,
- run-down,
- scruffy,
- seedy,
- sere,
- set,
- shabby,
- shelfworn,
- shopworn,
- slovenly,
- sorry,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- tatty,
- tedious,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- tiresome,
- torn,
- trite,
- truistic,
- uncreative,
- unoriginal,
- warmed-over,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- worn,
- worn out,
- worn ragged,
- worn thin,
- worn to rags,
- worn to threads,
- worn-down,
- worn-out,
- wretched
- age-old,
- aged,
- anile,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- back-number,
- banal,
- bare,
- bewhiskered,
- bromidic,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonplace,
- corny,
- crabbed,
- crumbling,
- cut-and-dried,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- deep-worn,
- dilapidated,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- dog-eared,
- dusty,
- fade,
- familiar,
- feeble,
- fossilized,
- fusty,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- gone to seed,
- hack,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- hoary,
- infirm,
- mildewed,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummylike,
- musty,
- old,
- old hat,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- platitudinous,
- ravaged with age,
- rickety,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run to seed,
- rusty,
- senile,
- sere,
- set,
- shaky,
- shelfworn,
- shopworn,
- shriveled,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- stricken in years,
- threadbare,
- time-scarred,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unoriginal,
- venerable,
- warmed-over,
- weak,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- withered,
- wizened,
- worn,
- worn ragged,
- worn thin,
- worn to rags,
- worn to threads,
- worn-down,
- worn-out
- airy,
- asinine,
- automatic,
- back-number,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- beaten,
- bedridden,
- bewhiskered,
- bromidic,
- catchpenny,
- chain,
- cliche,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonly known,
- commonplace,
- constant,
- corny,
- current,
- cut-and-dried,
- drained,
- dull,
- empty,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- familiar,
- fatuous,
- flat,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- frequent,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fusty,
- futile,
- habitual,
- hack,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- household,
- idle,
- inane,
- jejune,
- light,
- mildewed,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- notorious,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- old hat,
- ordinary,
- otiose,
- overworked,
- persistent,
- platitudinous,
- prosaic,
- proverbial,
- public,
- ready-made,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- regular,
- repetitive,
- routine,
- set,
- shallow,
- shopworn,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- superficial,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- truistic,
- twice-told,
- universally admitted,
- universally recognized,
- unoriginal,
- used up,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- warmed-over,
- well-kenned,
- well-known,
- well-recognized,
- well-trodden,
- well-understood,
- well-worn,
- widely known,
- windy,
- worn,
- worn thin,
- worn-out
- stale
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- showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"
- urinate, of cattle and horses related words >
- allurement,
- antiquated,
- back-number,
- bait,
- banal,
- bewhiskered,
- blown,
- boring,
- bromidic,
- cliche,
- cliched,
- come-on,
- common,
- commonplace,
- corny,
- crumbling,
- cut-and-dried,
- dead,
- decoy,
- dilapidated,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dry,
- dusty,
- enticement,
- fade,
- familiar,
- fetid,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- frowy,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- gone off,
- gone to seed,
- gruelly,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- hand-me-down,
- hardened,
- high,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- limp,
- mild,
- mildewed,
- milk-and-water,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- mouldy,
- musty,
- noisome,
- off,
- old,
- old hat,
- old-fashioned,
- overused,
- pappy,
- platitudinous,
- pulpy,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- rotten,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- rusty,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- seducement,
- set,
- shopworn,
- smelly,
- snare,
- sour,
- soured,
- spiceless,
- spoiled,
- square,
- stenchy,
- stereotyped,
- stinking,
- stock,
- strong,
- tainted,
- tasteless,
- temptation,
- thin,
- threadbare,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- tiresome,
- trap,
- trite,
- truistic,
- turned,
- unflavored,
- unoriginal,
- unsavory,
- vapid,
- warmed-over,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- weary,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- wilted,
- wishy-washy,
- withered,
- worn,
- worn thin
- Attic,
- Spartan,
- actual,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- banal,
- banausic,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- boring,
- breadwinning,
- businesslike,
- candid,
- characterless,
- chaste,
- classic,
- classical,
- cliched,
- commercial,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- direct,
- drab,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthbound,
- everyday,
- factual,
- flat,
- frank,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- hackneyed,
- ho-hum,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- humdrum,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- irksome,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- lean,
- lifeless,
- literal,
- lowly,
- lusterless,
- materialistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- moneymaking,
- monotonous,
- mouldy,
- mundane,
- natural,
- neat,
- nondescript,
- open,
- ordinary,
- overdone,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poetryless,
- practicable,
- practical,
- prose,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- realistic,
- routine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sober,
- spare,
- staid,
- stale,
- stark,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- stolid,
- straightforward,
- stuffy,
- tedious,
- threadbare,
- tired,
- tiresome,
- trite,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- undistinguished,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexceptional,
- unfanciful,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unnoteworthy,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unpoetical,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unvarnished,
- utilitarian,
- vapid,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- archaic,
- back-number,
- bad,
- bad-smelling,
- banal,
- bewhiskered,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- blown,
- bromidic,
- burning,
- bygone,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonplace,
- corny,
- crumbling,
- cut-and-dried,
- damp,
- decayed,
- despoiled,
- dilapidated,
- dirty,
- dusty,
- estral,
- estrous,
- estrual,
- fade,
- familiar,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flyblown,
- foul,
- frowsty,
- frowsy,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funky,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- gone to seed,
- graveolent,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- high,
- hoary,
- hot,
- ill-smelling,
- in heat,
- in must,
- in rut,
- maggoty,
- malodorous,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- mouldy,
- must,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- obsolete,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- old hat,
- old-fashioned,
- olid,
- out of date,
- passe,
- platitudinous,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- ravaged,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- rusty,
- rutting,
- ruttish,
- rutty,
- set,
- shopworn,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- smutted,
- smutty,
- sour,
- spoilt,
- squalid,
- square,
- stale,
- stenchy,
- stereotyped,
- stinking,
- stock,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- sulfurous,
- threadbare,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unoriginal,
- vile,
- warmed-over,
- weevily,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- worm-eaten,
- wormy,
- worn,
- worn out,
- worn thin
- tired
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- depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" related words >
- all in,
- appareled,
- arrayed,
- attired,
- ausgespielt,
- beat,
- beat up,
- beaten,
- bedecked,
- blase,
- bone-weary,
- breeched,
- bromidic,
- bushed,
- capped,
- chausse,
- clad,
- cliched,
- cloaked,
- clothed,
- coifed,
- commonplace,
- costumed,
- dead,
- dead-and-alive,
- dead-tired,
- deadbeat,
- debilitated,
- decked,
- dight,
- disguised,
- dispirited,
- dog-tired,
- dog-weary,
- done,
- done in,
- done up,
- drained,
- dressed,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- effete,
- emptied,
- endued,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- exhausted,
- fagged,
- fagged out,
- faint,
- fainting,
- far-gone,
- fatigued,
- fed-up,
- feeling faint,
- flagging,
- footsore,
- frazzled,
- garbed,
- garmented,
- gone,
- good and tired,
- gowned,
- habilimented,
- habited,
- hackneyed,
- hooded,
- invested,
- irked,
- jaded,
- knocked out,
- laid low,
- languid,
- life-weary,
- liveried,
- mantled,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- overused,
- overworked,
- pantalooned,
- played out,
- pooped,
- pooped out,
- prostrate,
- raimented,
- ready to drop,
- rigged out,
- robed,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- satiated,
- seedy,
- shod,
- shoed,
- shotten,
- sick,
- sick of,
- spent,
- splenetic,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- tired of,
- tired of living,
- tired out,
- tired to death,
- tired-winged,
- togged,
- toilworn,
- tricked out,
- trite,
- trousered,
- tuckered out,
- unimaginative,
- unoriginal,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- used up,
- vested,
- vestmented,
- washed-up,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- whacked,
- wilting,
- wiped out,
- world-weary,
- worn,
- worn out,
- worn-down,
- worn-out
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