Synonyms for time-worn
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tahym-wawrn, -wohrn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtaɪmˌwɔrn, -ˌwoʊrn |
Top 10 synonyms for time-worn Other synonyms for the word time-worn
- aboriginal
- ancient
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- archaic
- bygone
- cast-off
- dated
- decayed
- demode
- done
- early
- erstwhile
- hackneyed
- hoary
- immemorial
- late
- moth-eaten
- of old
- of yore
- old as Methuselah
- old as the hills
- olden
- oldfangled
- once
- onetime
- out-of-date
- passé
- past
- primeval
- primordial
- pristine
- quondam
- relic
- remote
- rusty
- sometime
- stale
- superannuated
- time-worn
- timeworn
- unfashionable
- unoriginal
- venerable
- worn-out
Définition of time-worn
Origin :- 1729, from time (n.) + worn (adj.).
- As in old : adj obsolete, outdated
- As in olden : adj old
- There were time-worn shades to the windows, but no curtains.
- Extract from : « Mary Louise in the Country » by L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
- It was a plain Gothic parapet, in keeping with the time-worn building.
- Extract from : « The Hero of Garside School » by J. Harwood Panting
- I have been reading the bills, yellow-stained and time-worn.
- Extract from : « The House With Sixty Closets » by Frank Samuel Child
- Prescott, antiquated and time-worn, is on the Canadian bank.
- Extract from : « America, Volume IV (of 6) » by Joel Cook
- The time-worn colossus of Rome was tottering under its own weight.
- Extract from : « The Hand of Providence » by J. H. Ward
- When I saw Whiteley, last June, he was time-worn and whitened.
- Extract from : « The Romance of the Reaper » by Herbert Newton Casson
- At the top of the sheet, which was yellow and time-worn, were two lines, as follows:XLI.
- Extract from : « A Runaway Brig; » by James Otis
- It was not long before they were on the time-worn topic, the war of the sexes.
- Extract from : « The Gay Adventure » by Richard Bird
- Again, this point of view offers a satisfactory solution for the time-worn puzzle of relativity.
- Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
- On the Matron's time-worn mantleLet the Poet's wreath be laid.
- Extract from : « Julia Ward Howe » by Laura E. Richards
Antonyms for time-worn
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