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Word | Hackneyed |
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' / of Hackney / commonplace; trite / (of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite. / not interesting, funny, etc., because of being used too often : not fresh or original, | |
Usage | ⇒ English being spoken world over has many hackneyed expressions ⇒ When the reviewer criticized the movie for its hackneyed plot, we agreed; we had seen similar stories hundreds of times before,. ⇒ it's hackneyed, but true—the more you save the more you earn ⇒ hackneyed old sayings ⇒ Some are the old hackneyed phrase but it is a fact ⇒ hackneyed lyrics ⇒ hackneyed phrases |
Synonyms | trite, stale, stock, banal, commonplace, tired, stereotyped, threadbare, pedestrian, prosaic, overused, routine, unoriginal, common, platitudinous, shopworn, well-worn, corny, timeworn, everyday, |
Antonyms | fresh, original, creative, extraordinary, new, novel, strange, unheard-of, unprecedented, atypical, exceptional, ingenious, innovative, inventive, pioneering, unaccustomed, uncommon, unfamiliar, unknown, unusual, |
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