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adj. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

adj. 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'"

scruffy, seedy

adj. shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain

exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)

adj. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"

common

adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"

typical

adj. conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"

insignificant, undistinguished

adj. not worthy of notice

perennial, recurrent, repeated

adj. recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"

habitual

adj. made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"

frequent

adj. coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"

conversant

adj. well informed about or familiar with; usu followed by "with": "conversant with business trends"

aware(p), cognizant, cognisant

adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"

side by side

adj. closely related or associated; "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side"

matter-of-fact, prosaic

adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"

stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative

adj. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"

uninteresting

adj. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"

moldy, mouldy, musty

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

weather-beaten, weatherworn, weathered

adj. worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles"

attrited

adj. worn by rubbing or friction

battered

adj. damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"

raddled, worn-out

adj. used until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles"

creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone

adj. worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

dog-eared, eared

adj. worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages"

eroded, scoured

adj. worn away as by water or ice or wind

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy

adj. infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms

shopworn, shopsoiled

adj. worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price"

waterworn

adj. (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water

well-worn

adj. showing signs of much wear or use

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

cliched, ready-made

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

imitative, copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

new

adj. unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"

new, pristine

adj. (unworn)

novel, refreshing

adj. pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

original

adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"

fresh

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce"

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