Synonyms for threadbare
ˈθrɛdˌbɛərthread·bare

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1. threadbare

   Synonyms:
   hackneyed, commonplace, trite, stale, worn out

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1. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-wornadjective

   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'"

   Antonyms:
   new, original

2. threadbareadjective

   having the nap worn away so that the threads show through

   "threadbare rugs"

   Synonyms:
   tired, hackneyed, stock(a), commonplace, trite, banal, shopworn, old-hat, well-worn, timeworn

   Antonyms:
   new, original

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1. threadbareadjective

   Synonyms:
   napless, worn out

2. threadbareadjective

   Synonyms:
   trite, hackneyed, stale, beaten, common, commonplace

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1. threadbareadjective

   Synonyms:
   napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed

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1. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

   The U.S. needs to view regional issues more seriously than raise baseless and threadbare allegations against Iran, mr. Kerry should ask U.S. allies where the Islamic State’s arms come from.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   War is the true Nature of the world, a dog with matted fur lapping eagerly at the bloody Nile, wagging its threadbare tail the entire time.

3. Norman Douglas:

   What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.