SkyfireDict

threadbare   (TTS Sound)

The adj threadbare has 2 senses

• banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, 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'")


• threadbare -- (having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs")