Found 3 items, similar to threadbare.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: threadbare aus
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]