threadbare – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
threadbare
adj.
worn, ragged, frayed, shabby
threadbare
Adjective
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'"
(synonym) banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
(similar) unoriginal
2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"
(similar) worn
threadbare
příd.jm.
otřepaný; ošoupaný
threadbare
Przym.
wytarty
Threadbare
(a.)
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
(a.)
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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