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threadbare 音標拼音: [θr'ɛdb ,ɛr] a. 毛絨已磨掉而露線的 毛絨已磨掉而露線的 threadbare adj 1: 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'" [ synonym: { banal}, { commonplace}, { hackneyed}, { old- hat}, { shopworn}, { stock( a)}, { threadbare}, { timeworn}, { tired}, { trite}, { well- worn}] 2: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; " threadbare rugs" Threadbare \ Thread" bare`\, a. 1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. " A threadbare cope." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for " threadbare": back- number, banal, bare, bathetic, bewhiskered, boring, bromidic, cliche, cliche- ridden, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, cut- and- dried, damaged, deep- worn, dilapidated, dingy, dog- eared, down- at- heel, dull, fade, faded, familiar, frayed, fusty, hack, hackney, hackneyed, imitative, impaired, injured, monotonous, moth- eaten, musty, old hat, overused, overworked, platitudinous, played out, prosaic, ragged, run- down, scruffy, seedy, sere, set, shabby, shelfworn, shopworn, slovenly, sorry, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, tacky, tattered, tatty, tedious, timeworn, tired, tiresome, torn, trite, truistic, uncreative, unoriginal, warmed- over, well- known, well- worn, worn, worn out, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn- down, worn- out, wretched
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