threadbare
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Adjective
(of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) Becoming thin and tattered with age,
/ˈTHredˌber/,
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(of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) Becoming thin and tattered with age,
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(of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) Becoming thin and tattered with age
- - shabby rooms with threadbare carpets
- - the song was a tissue of threadbare clichés
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(of a person, building, or room) Poor or shabby in appearance
Web Definitions:
- banal: 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'"
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"
- shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show; wearing clothes of threadbare material; banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed