Shopworn - Definition
shopworn
adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn
merchandise at half price" [syn: shopworn,
shopsoiled]
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
`hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed,
old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
