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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Threadbare (0.00985 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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