Definitions for: Threadbare

[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'"
[adj] having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

Webster (1913) Definition: Thread"bare`, a.
1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
threadbare clothes. ``A threadbare cope.'' --Chaucer.

2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and
threadbare quotations. --Swift.

Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock(a), timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn

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