shopworn
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˈʃɑpˌwɔrn/
:
gastado
- Her argument was so shopworn that it failed to inspire any new thoughts.
Examples
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"No money, no mission" has become a shopworn cliché.
Academic text (1993) -
San Francisco was unsuccessful because, despite the shopworn liberal idea that the local is the sphere of the family, local governments are actually rather circumscribed in regulating family matters.
Academic text (2016) -
The Progressive movement also meant the end of the old "shopworn" notion of individual rights and property rights.
Academic text (2002) -
The result is a home that is functional and efficient, but shopworn.
Blog text (26) -
Your answer of big government is shopworn and ragged.
Blog text (14) -
These are just some of the shopworn excuses trotted out to avoid cutting a deal.
Blog text (21) -
In his hilarious "How to Write," Colson Whitehead plays with shopworn advice that will be familiar to many student writers.
Blog text (12) -
Poke around, and you'll find the usual shopworn debates and entrenched positions, but Brown, it would seem, is being given short shrift.
Blog text (33) -
Create a theater for the masses based on a few simple truths, not on some shopworn abstractions about drama that don't hold true today, if they ever did.
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The speech was filled with shopworn phrases that no longer resonated with the audience.
Synonyms
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4.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it feels boring
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5.0
No longer useful or fashionable because it is old
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3.4
Ordinary and not special or new
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6.6
Not new or interesting because it is used too often
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7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
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6.5
No longer fashionable or useful
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7.6
No longer original or interesting because people use it so often
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4.6
A phrase or idea used so often that it is no longer interesting
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4.0
Used so often that it does not feel new and seems boring
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6.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it is no longer interesting
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7.4
Used so often it feels like a boring idea
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5.4
Not new because people use it too often and it is easy to guess
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6.8
No longer new or fashionable
Used so much that it looks old or no longer works well
Old, tired ideas that are no longer interesting
Something that is common and not special
Old and no longer useful or accepted today
Old and out of date in ideas, opinions, or ways
Antonyms
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
Shopworn comes from the words shop and worn, which together mean 'worn from being in a shop'. So when an idea or phrase is shopworn it feels tired and not interesting because it has been 'used too often'.