old-hat

Questions about old-hat

What does old-hat mean?

old-hat means "repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in old-hat?

old-hat has 2 syllables and divides as old--hat under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for old-hat?

Close synonyms include banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old-hat a common word?

old-hat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.