Timeworn

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  timeworn
       adj : 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},
              {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]

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

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "time-worn":
     ageing, ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, broken-down, dated,
     decrepit, dilapidated, dog-eared, hackneyed, moth-eaten,
     obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, overused,
     passe, ragged, ramshackle, run-down, seedy, shabby, stale,
     stereotyped, threadbare, time-scarred, tired, trite, tumbledown,
     well-worn, worn, worn out
  
  

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

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "timeworn":
     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