Synonyms for threadbare
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : thred-bair |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈθrɛdˌbɛər |
Top 10 synonyms for threadbare Other synonyms for the word threadbare
- bathetic
- beat up
- cliché
- cliché-ridden
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- damaged
- dilapidated
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- dull
- everyday
- familiar
- frowzy
- hackneyed
- imitative
- impaired
- injured
- moth-eaten
- old
- overused
- poor
- ragged
- run-down
- seedy
- set
- stereotyped
- stock
- tedious
- timeworn
- tired
- uncreative
- used
- used-up
- well-worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for threadbare
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