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moth eaten
adjective as in mangy
adjective as in moth-eaten
adjective as in musty
adjective as in obsolete
Strongest matches
adjective as in old
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in outdated/out-of-date
adjective as in outmoded
Strongest matches
adjective as in ragged
Strong matches
adjective as in scraggly
adjective as in shabby
Strongest matches
adjective as in stale
Strong matches
adjective as in tattered
adjective as in threadbare
adjective as in trite
Weak matches
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- drained
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in boring
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in outdated
adjective as in olden
Weak matches
- aboriginal
- age-old
- ancient
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- antique
- archaic
- bygone
- crumbling
- dated
- decayed
- démodé
- done
- early
- erstwhile
- former
- hackneyed
- hoary
- immemorial
- late
- moth-eaten
- of old
- of yore
- old as Methuselah
- old as the hills
- old-fashioned
- old-time
- oldfangled
- once
- onetime
- original
- out-of-date
- outmoded
- passé
- past
- primeval
- primitive
- primordial
- pristine
- quondam
- relic
- remote
- rusty
- sometime
- stale
- superannuated
- time-worn
- timeworn
- traditional
- unfashionable
- unoriginal
- venerable
- worn-out
adjective as in overused
adjective as in platitudinal
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- cliched
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in platitudinous
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in raggedy
adjective as in scrubby
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in tatterdemalion
adjective as in tatty
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in warmed-over
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in weariful
Weak matches
- arid
- bomb
- bromidic
- characterless
- colorless
- commonplace
- drab
- drag
- drear
- dreary
- drudging
- dry
- dull
- flat
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- insipid
- interminable
- irksome
- lifeless
- monotonous
- moth-eaten
- mundane
- nothing
- nowhere
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- prosaic
- repetitious
- routine
- spiritless
- stale
- stereotyped
- stodgy
- stuffy
- stupid
- tame
- tedious
- threadbare
- tiresome
- tiring
- trite
- unexciting
- uninteresting
- unvaried
- vapid
- wearisome
- weary
- well-worn
adjective as in aged
adjective as in ancient
adjective as in hackneyed
adjective as in shabby; stale
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Example Sentences
For a contemporary manifestation of this moth-eaten brand of tyranny, look no further than Hamas-ruled Gaza.
I also saw the clerk busy folding up a moth-eaten velvet pall—not a sight for Christmas Day.
Come one, come all—all you moth-eaten, lousy stiffs from Stiffville.
In impatient haste he tossed out some old novels, caps, a blazer, a roll of moth-eaten bunting.
When we go to see them in the evening we find him wrapped in a moth-eaten gray coat and a cap on his head.
They had hurried on because they were anxious to bring the spoils of the chase to Simla ere the skins grew moth-eaten.
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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to moth-eaten, such as: ancient, antiquated, archaic, dated, decayed, and decrepit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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