timeworn

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From time +‎ worn.

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timeworn (comparative more timeworn, superlative most timeworn)

  1. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
    Synonyms: shopworn, threadbare, well-worn
    • [1905], Maxim Gorky, “Part I”, in J. K. M. Shirazi, transl., Creatures that Once were Men, London: Alston Rivers, [], →OCLC, page 1:
      The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; []
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]:
      After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
  2. Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.
    Synonyms: commonplace, clichéd, stock, tired, unoriginal; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed

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