Hvernig á að dæma "threadbare"

• "threadbare" fram á Enska.

Merkingar og skilgreiningar á "threadbare"

Adjective

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'"

Samheiti:

• banal
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• well-worn

Adjective

having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

Samheiti:

• threadbare