Shopworn
Shopworn adjective - Used or heard so often as to be dull.
Usage example: the shopworn suggestion to job applicants to “just be yourself”
Well-worn
Well-worn adjective - Used or heard so often as to be dull.
Usage example: people at the funeral offered the grieving family well-worn platitudes and expressions of sympathy
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- stock and shopworn
- stock and well-worn
- stale and shopworn
- stale and well-worn
- tired and shopworn
- tired and well-worn
- overworked and shopworn
- overworked and well-worn
- worn and shopworn
- worn and well-worn
- commonplace and shopworn
- commonplace and well-worn
- threadbare and shopworn
- threadbare and well-worn
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Well-worn and Shopworn. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/shopworn/well-worn
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