Thesaurus
threadbare
Synonyms and Antonyms of threadbare
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showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels (or down-at-heel), dumpy, grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, ratty, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, tatterdemalion, tatty, timeworn, tumbledown
gone to seed
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used or heard so often as to be dull
banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous
canned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginal
normal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usual
arid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearying
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worn or torn into or as if into rags
dowdy, scruffy, tatterdemalion
lacerate (or lacerated), shredded
broken-down, decrepit, dilapidated, dog-eared, grungy, mangy, moth-eaten, run-down, scuzzy [slang], tacky
brand-new, new, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), unused
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lacking money or material possessions
beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British]
down on one's luck, out at elbows (or out at the elbows), out of pocket
affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Synonym Discussion of threadbare
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- "you win some, you lose some" is a trite expression
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- all of the metaphors and images in the poem are hackneyed
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- views of minorities that are stereotyped and out-of-date
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- a mystery novel with a threadbare plot
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