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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: shopworn, threadbare, well-worn
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: commonplace, clichéd, stock, tired, unoriginal, banal, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy, corny, dog-eared, hackneyed, hoary, overdone, overused, overworked, pat, played out, shopworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, trite, warmed-over, well-worn
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn
Antonyms: none provided
History
From time + worn.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
