Synonyms of the word shopworn


SHOPWORNBANAL - COMMONPLACE - HACKNEYED - OLD-HAT - SHOPSOILED - STOCK - THREADBARE - TIMEWORN - TIRED - TRITE - UNORIGINAL - WELL-WORN - WORN

shopworn

  • adj. Having been used, as a sample item in a retail store.
  • adj. (figuratively) Not fresh; tired or cliché.
  • adj. Faded.

banal

  • adj. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

commonplace

  • adj. Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
  • n. A platitude or cliché.
  • n. Something that is ordinary.
  • n. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
  • n. A commonplace book.
  • v. To make a commonplace book.
  • v. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
  • v. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

hackneyed

  • adj. Repeated too often.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of hackney.

old-hat

  • adj. attributive form of old hat.

shopsoiled

  • adj. Alternative form of shop-soiled.

stock

  • n. A store or supply.
  • n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
  • n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
  • n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
  • n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
  • n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
  • n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
  • n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
  • n. A bar, stick or rod.
  • n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
  • n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
  • n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
  • n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
  • n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
  • n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
  • n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
  • n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
  • n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
  • n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
  • n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
  • n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
  • n. The beater of a fulling mill.
  • v. To have on hand for sale.
  • v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
  • v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
  • v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
  • v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
  • v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
  • adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
  • adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
  • adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
  • n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

threadbare

  • adj. (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show.
  • adj. damaged or shabby.
  • adj. (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material.
  • adj. (of speech) banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed.

timeworn

  • adj. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
  • adj. Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed.

tired

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of tire.
  • adj. In need of some rest or sleep.
  • adj. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
  • adj. Overused, cliché.
  • adj. (slang, African American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent.

trite

  • adj. Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting…
  • n. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
  • n. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.

unoriginal

  • adj. lacking originality.

well-worn

  • adj. showing signs of wear because of extensive use.
  • adj. (by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often.

worn

  • adj. damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
  • v. past participle of wear.

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