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Definition of 'well-worn'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) well-worn
showing the effects of extensive use or wear:
well-worn carpets.

2. well-worn
trite; hackneyed; stale:
a well-worn saying.

3. well-worn
becomingly worn or borne:
a well-worn modesty.

Etymology: (1615–25)

Definition of 'well-worn'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) well-worn
showing signs of much wear or use

2. (adj) banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), 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'"

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