Definitions for threadbare
Overview of adj threadbare
The adj threadbare has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
(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'")
2. threadbare
(having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs")
