Synonyms of the word

unoriginal

• adj. lacking originality.

banal

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

bromidic

• adj. stale, banal, clichéd.

cliched

• adj. Alternative spelling of clichéd.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cliche.

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.

conventional

• adj. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
• adj. Ordinary, commonplace.
• adj. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
• n. (finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or…

corny

• adj. Insipid or trite.
• adj. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
• adj. (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
• adj. Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
• adj. (obsolete, Britain, slang) tipsy; drunk.
• adj. (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

dusty

• adj. Covered with dust.
• adj. Powdery and resembling dust.
• adj. Grey in parts.

hackneyed

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

moth-eaten

• adj. Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae.
• adj. old and in poor condition.

old-hat

• adj. attributive form of old hat.

platitudinal

• adj. Characterized by banality or triteness.

platitudinous

• adj. Characterised by cliches or platitudes.

ready-made

• adj. Preexisting or made previously and suitable for use without (further) preparation or modification; comparable…
• adj. (not comparable) Made in advance to a standard specification.
• adj. Made or prepared in advance and used regularly or habitually without original thought.
• n. A ready-made object.

secondary

• adj. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
• adj. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
• adj. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic…
• adj. (geology) produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass.
• adj. (geology) developed by pressure or other causes.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
• adj. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
• adj. Of less than primary importance.
• adj. (education) related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18.
• adj. (manufacturing) relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
• adj. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
• n. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
• n. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or…
• n. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
• n. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
• n. (astronomy) A satellite.
• n. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

shopworn

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

slavish

• adj. in the manner of a slave; abject.

stale

• adj. (alcohol, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
• adj. No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
• adj. No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed,…
• adj. No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
• adj. (agriculture, obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land.
• adj. (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
• adj. Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
• adj. (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
• n. (colloquial) Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
• v. (of alcohol, obsolete, transitive) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially…
• v. (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest…
• v. (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
• v. (alcohol, intransitive) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
• n. A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.).
• n. (dialectal) The posts and rungs composing a ladder.
• n. (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant.
• n. The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
• n. (military, obsolete) A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
• n. (chess, uncommon) A stalemate; a stalemated game.
• n. (military, obsolete) An ambush.
• n. (obsolete) A band of armed men or hunters.
• n. (Scotland, military, obsolete) The main force of an army.
• adj. (chess, obsolete) At a standstill; stalemated.
• v. (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
• v. (chess, obsolete, intransitive) To be stalemated.
• n. (livestock, obsolete) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
• v. (livestock, obsolete, intransitive) To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
• n. (falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
• n. (obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
• n. (crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
• n. (obsolete) a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
• n. (obsolete) A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. …
• n. (crime, obsolete) A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
• n. (hunting, obsolete) Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
• v. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To serve as a decoy, to lure.

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.

uncreative

• adj. Not creative.

well-worn

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