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Translating from English to Walloon

English definitions WordNet

ADJECTIVE 2

  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'”
    Synonymsbanalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstocktimeworntiredtritewell-worn

  2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through

    • “threadbare rugs”