timeworn
See also: time-worn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/
Adjective
timeworn (comparative more timeworn, superlative most timeworn)
- Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
- Synonyms: shopworn, threadbare, well-worn
- [1905], Maxim Gorky, “Part I”, in J. K. M. Shirazi, transl., Creatures that Once were Men, London: Alston Rivers, […], →OCLC, page 1:
- The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; […]
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014):
- After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
- Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.
- Synonyms: commonplace, clichéd, stock, tired, unoriginal; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed
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