'Hackneyed' definitions:
Definition of 'hackneyed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Hackneyed'
From: GCIDE
- Hackney \Hack"ney\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hackneyed (-n[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Hackneying.]
- 1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. [1913 Webster]
- Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To carry in a hackney coach. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hackneyed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- archaic,
- automatic,
- back-number,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- beaten,
- bewhiskered,
- bromidic,
- cliched,
- common,
- commonly known,
- commonplace,
- constant,
- conventional,
- corny,
- current,
- cut-and-dried,
- everyday,
- fade,
- familiar,
- frequent,
- fusty,
- habitual,
- hack,
- hackney,
- household,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- notorious,
- obsolete,
- old hat,
- out-of-date,
- outmoded,
- overworked,
- persistent,
- platitudinous,
- proverbial,
- public,
- quotidian,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- regular,
- repetitive,
- routine,
- set,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- truistic,
- universally admitted,
- universally recognized,
- unoriginal,
- warmed-over,
- well-kenned,
- well-known,
- well-recognized,
- well-trodden,
- well-understood,
- well-worn,
- widely known,
- worn,
- worn thin,
- worn-out