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Adjectives (12)
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well-worn
adj. showing signs of much wear or use
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'"
Fuzzynyms (24)
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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"
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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
threadbare
adj. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"
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
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
Antonyms (2)
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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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