well-worn

1. 1.

   showing signs of much wear or use

   Similarworn
2. 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'”

   Synonymsbanalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstockthreadbaretimeworntiredtrite

   Similarunoriginal

Questions about well-worn

What does well-worn mean?

well-worn means "showing signs of much wear or use". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in well-worn?

well-worn has 2 syllables: well--worn. The stress falls on "well-".

What is another word for well-worn?

Close synonyms include banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn. 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 well-worn a common word?

well-worn 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.