hackneyed
Adjective
- 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’”
- Synonyms
- banal
- commonplace
- old-hat
- shopworn
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- trite
- well-worn
- Similar to
- unoriginal
- Related
- triteness
- staleness
- platitude
- cliche
- banality
- commonplace
- bromide
- platitude
- cliche
- banality
- commonplace
- bromide
- Synonyms
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