| Pronunciation: | | 'thred`behr
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| Matching Terms: | | threadbareness
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock(a), timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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