well-worn well·worn uncommon adjective 1. showing signs of much wear or use Similarworn 2. 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” “'” Synonymsbanalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstockthreadbaretimeworntiredtrite Similarunoriginal WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved.