Definition of well-worn Well-worn

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Adjective

well-worn, well-worner, well-wornest

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
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  • well-worn
    Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.

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