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hackneyedadjective used or heard so often as to be dullit's hackneyed, but true—the more you save the more you earn banal, cliché(also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn twice-toldbromidic, platitudinal, platitudinouscanned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginalnormal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usualarid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyingold-fashioned, old hat fresh, new, novel, original, unclichéd, unhackneyed animating, energizing, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulatingabsorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, rivetingatypical, extraordinary, strange, unaccustomed, uncommon, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unknown, unprecedented, unusualpathbreaking, pioneering, trailblazing hackneyedverbpast tense of hackneyto use so much as to make less appealingadvertisers have hackneyed the word "revolutionary" so much that it now just means that a product is new overexposed, overused, stereotyped, vulgarized bored, exhausted, overdidcoarseneddepleted, jaded, tired, wore outpopularized adj.trite, hackneyed, stereotyped, threadbare mean lacking the freshness that evokes attention or interest.trite applies to a once effective phrase or idea spoiled from long familiarity."you win some, you lose some" is a trite expression hackneyed stresses being worn out by overuse so as to become dull and meaningless.all of the metaphors and images in the poem are hackneyed stereotyped implies falling invariably into the same pattern or form.views of minorities that are stereotyped and out-of-date threadbare applies to what has been used until its possibilities of interest have been totally exhausted.a mystery novel with a threadbare plot in 1735 |