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threadbareadjective showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglectbought a threadbare couch at a garage sale beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels(or down-at-heel also down-at-the-heel or down-at-heels), dumpy, grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, ratty, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, tatterdemalion, tatty, timeworn, tumbledown abandoned, unkeptdesolate, forlorn, godforsakenbroken-down, decrepit, tired, worn-outbedraggled, dingy, ragged, tattereddecaying, deteriorated, deteriorating, rackety, ramshackle, rattletrap, ricketybroken, damaged, destroyed, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, ruined, wrecked gone to seed brand-new, fresh, newcared-for, kept-up, maintainedmended, patched, rebuilt, reconstructedsmart, spiffy, spruce used or heard so often as to be dulla novel filled with nothing but threadbare clichés banal, cliché(also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, 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 worn or torn into or as if into ragsI loved that threadbare shirt, but after 10 years of wear, it was time to throw it away frayed, ragged, raggedy, ratty, seedy, shabby, tattered, worn-out dowdy, scruffy, tatterdemaliondingy, fadedlacerate(or lacerated), shreddedholey, patchybroken-down, decrepit, dilapidated, dog-eared, grungy, mangy, moth-eaten, run-down, scuzzy(slang), tacky brand-new, new, spick-and-span(or spic-and-span), unused lacking money or material possessionsnever knew that she had so many threadbare relatives until she won the lottery beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint(chiefly British) deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivilegedbankrupt, bankrupted, bust(or busted), insolventpossessionless, ruineddepressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitenedcash-strapped, low, short, tapped out down on one's luck, out at elbows(or out at the elbows), out of pocket affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed(also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do comfortable, prosperous 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 the 14th century |