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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

lacking importance, significance or merit due to being unoriginal, overused, and stale;

e.g. His writing was worn out and hackneyed, leaning on tired old tricks and plots.

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Similar Words

Assembly-line

Banal

Cobwebby

Commonplace

Cookie-cutter

Hack

Hackney

Moth-eaten

Musty

Obligatory

Pedantic

Shopworn

Stale

Stereotyped

Threadbare

Timeworn

Tired

Trite

Uninspired

Well-worn

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Opposite Words

Absorbing

Artful

Atypical

Creative

Engaging

Engrossing

Exciting

Extraordinary

Facetious

Fresh

Gripping

Groundbreaking

Humorous

Imaginative

Innovative

Interesting

Intriguing

Inventive

Invigorating

Jocular

Novel

Original

Riveting

Stimulating

Strange

Trailblazing

Unaccustomed

Uncommon

Unfamiliar

Unhackneyed

Unheard-of

Unknown

Unprecedented

Unusual

Witty

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Related Words

Arid

Barren

Bored

Boring

Canned

Cardboard

Colorless

Conventional

Cookie-cutter

Derivative

Drab

Dreary

Dry

Dull

Dusty

Exhausted

Heavy

Ho-hum

Humdrum

Imitative

Jaded

Jejune

Leaden

Mind-numbing

Monotonous

Normal

Numbing

Old

Old-fashioned

Ordinary

Pedantic

Pedestrian

Ponderous

Prosaic

Ready-made

Rote

Routine

Standard

Stock

Stodgy

Stuffy

Tame

Tedious

Tired

Tiresome

Tiring

Tried-and-true

Typical

Undramatic

Unimaginative

Uninspired

Uninteresting

Unoriginal

Usual

Wearisome

Weary

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