well-worn
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˌwɛlˈwɔrn/
:
gastado
- The government lawyer's insistence on the connection between whiteness and fitness for self-government was a well-worn strategy.
- a well-worn path
- a well-worn cliché
- a well-worn formula
Examples
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For the first half hour of the Monty Lazarus interview, the questions followed such a well-worn track that Diana could have given the answers in her sleep.
Fiction book (2000) -
A typical example of this behavior is the well-worn practice of denying minorities access to desirable jobs, positions, and opportunities to obtain a good education.
Academic text (1997) -
Is it a boy, did you say?" The aunt gave the mother of the child a well-worn look.
Fiction book (2002) -
There's nothing wrong with using well-worn ideas, especially when having new ideas or new characters intersect with them.
Blog text (20) -
As conservatives discuss health care, social policies (like illegal immigration), and education, they are stuck juggling well-worn governmental solutions.
Blog text (15) -
Speaking to the assembled cadets, Romney said, "Hope is not a strategy," in an allusion to a well-worn Obama campaign phrase.
Blog text (33) -
The exhibition repeated the by-then well-worn assertion that Muybridge's experiments in instantaneous photography had led to the invention of the motion picture.
Academic text (2017) -
The phrase 'the early bird catches the worm' is a well-worn saying that everyone has heard.
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His well-worn advice about saving money never seems to lose its relevance.
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She avoided using the well-worn clichés that make speeches sound unoriginal.
Synonyms
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4.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it feels boring
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3.5
Doing the same thing again and again
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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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7.6
No longer original or interesting because people use it so often
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5.1
Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way
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4.0
Used so often that it does not feel new and seems boring
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7.9
Not interesting because people use it too often
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6.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it is no longer interesting
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5.4
Not new because people use it too often and it is easy to guess
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7.4
Used so often it feels like a boring idea
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4.7
A phrase or idea used so often that it no longer seems new
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6.8
No longer new or fashionable
Used so much that it looks old or no longer works well
Not original, dull and trying to seem important
Something that is common and not special
Antonyms
How Fresh
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Well-worn comes from well ('very' or 'completely') and worn (from 'wear', 'used a lot'), so a well-worn phrase or idea is one that has been used so much it feels 'worn out' and no longer fresh.