shopworn

3 definitions found

shopworn - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a.
     Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a
     shop.
     [1913 Webster]

shopworn - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

shopworn - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "shopworn":
     bare, cliche, cliched, deep-worn, dog-eared, hackneyed, overused,
     overworked, sere, shelfworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired,
     well-worn, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads,
     worn-down, worn-out