timeworn

See also: time-worn

English

Etymology

time +‎ worn

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/

Adjective

timeworn (comparative more timeworn, superlative most timeworn)

Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
  After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed.

Synonyms

(showing the effects of wear): shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, well-worn
(trite or banal; overused or hackneyed, i.e. repeated too often): banal, commonplace, clichéd, stock, tired, trite, unoriginal. See also Thesaurus:hackneyed

Translations

showing the effects of wear

German: abgegriffen (de), abgenutzt (de), veraltet (de), patiniert (de)

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