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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Threadbare (0.00990 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Threadbare.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: threadbare
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: threadbare
threadbare
adj 1: 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'" [syn:
banal,
commonplace,
hackneyed,
old-hat,
shopworn,
stock(a),
timeworn,
tired,
trite,
well-worn]
2: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;
“threadbare rugs”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Threadbare
Threadbare
\Thread"bare`\, a.
1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
threadbare clothes.
“A threadbare cope.” --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and
threadbare quotations. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
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