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shopworn
adjective shop·worn \-ˌwȯrn\
: faded or damaged from being in a shop or store for too long
: not interesting because of being used too often
Full Definition of SHOPWORN
1
: faded, soiled, or otherwise impaired by remaining too long in a store
2
: stale from excessive use or familiarity <shopworn clichés>
3
: worn-out <a shopworn veteran>
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First Known Use of SHOPWORN
1838
Related to SHOPWORN
- Synonyms
- banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
Rhymes with SHOPWORN
acorn, adorn, airborne, althorn, baseborn, bass horn, bicorne, blackthorn, blue corn, boxthorn, broomcorn, buckthorn, bullhorn, careworn, Christ's-thorn, Dearborn, dehorn, dent corn, earthborn, einkorn, field corn, firethorn, firstborn, flint corn, foghorn, forewarn, forlorn, forworn, freeborn, French horn, green corn, greenhorn, hartshorn, hawthorn, highborn, hulled corn, inborn, inkhorn, krummhorn, leghorn, longhorn, lovelorn, lowborn, newborn, outworn, pod corn, popcorn, post horn, pronghorn, ramshorn, reborn, saxhorn, seaborne, self-born, shipborne, shoehorn, shorthorn, skyborne, soilborne, stillborn, stinkhorn, suborn, sweet corn, tick-borne, timeworn, tinhorn, toilworn, tricorne, trueborn, twice-born, twinborn, unborn, unworn, wayworn, wellborn, well-worn, wind-borne
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