threadbare

threadbare /'θredbeə/
  • tính từ
    • mòn xơ cả chỉ, xác xơ
      • a threadbare coat: cái áo xác xơ
    • (nghĩa bóng) cũ rích
      • a threadbare joke: một câu đùa cũ rích

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



threadbare

Từ điển Collocation

threadbare adj.

VERBS be | wear sth The carpets had worn rather threadbare.

ADV. a little, rather

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

    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'

  • having the nap worn away so that the threads show through

    threadbare rugs

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock(a) timeworn tired trite well-worn