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threadbare |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Threadbare \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: threadbare adj 1: 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'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}] 2: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through "threadbare rugs"
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