Antonyms for threadbare

Grammar : Adj

Spell : thred-bair

Phonetic Transcription : ˈθrɛdˌbɛər

Definition of threadbare

Origin : mid-14c., from thread (n.) + bare. The notion is of "having the nap worn off," leaving bare the threads.

adj worn, frayed
adj trite, corny

Example sentences :

It's a very good word, too, but sometimes I fear she will wear it threadbare.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare.
Extract from : « The Very Small Person » by Annie Hamilton Donnell

He weighed the stories he had heard from Shaky, and picked them threadbare.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

His sentiments were, no better known in Boston than his threadbare clothes.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

She pressed the cat to her threadbare bosom with a breathless exclamation.
Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad

Simple, threadbare phrases, yet she had once thought him brilliant.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

Paddy would come in shivering and shaking in his threadbare coat.
Extract from : « Jerry's Reward » by Evelyn Snead Barnett

Once these terms were strange and new; now they are old and threadbare.
Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren

Owen had, however, to wear his threadbare jacket for some days longer.
Extract from : « Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs » by William H. G. Kingston

He liked to be clean, but he preferred, as it were, to be threadbare.
Extract from : « The Good Soldier » by Ford Madox Ford

Synonyms for threadbare

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