Shopworn

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a.
     Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a
     shop.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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