timeworn

See also: time-worn

English

Etymology

time +‎ worn

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/

Adjective

timeworn (comparative more timeworn, superlative most timeworn)

  1. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
      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. Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:hackneyed
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