We found 5 definitions of well-worn from 3 different sources.
Adjectivewell-worn, well-worner, well-wornest |
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well-worn - showing signs of much wear or use | ||
well-worn - 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'" | ||
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite | ||
unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham |