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What is another word for hackneyed?
The closest synonyms for hackneyed are trite and banal. All three words suggest that something has become stale or dull due to overuse—that it has become clichéd due to being done to death.
Synonyms that focus on overuse include overused, overdone, worn out, and well-worn. Other synonyms include commonplace and unoriginal.
The word threadbare is used in a literal way to describe worn-out clothes, but it can also be used in a figurative way to mean hackneyed. The word shopworn can mean the same thing.
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The Wilhelm scream is no hackneyed narrative device, but instead a nod to what Burtt calls the legacy of the language of sound.
HOW THE WILHELM SCREAM BECAME HOLLYWOOD’S ULTIMATE ‘SECRET’ SOUND EFFECTMICHAEL CAVNASEPTEMBER 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe word “unique” is so hackneyed that it’s a cliche to say it’s a cliche.
DREW PISARRA’S ‘DANGEROUSLY FUNNY AND QUEERLY INVENTIVE BRAIN’KATHI WOLFEJULY 23, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEIf it’s a little hammy or hackneyed, it’s because it’s a pretty reliable formula that works.
3D ESCAPE ROOMS, 1980’S-THEMED MURDER MYSTERIES: COMPANIES INVEST IN VIRTUAL RETREATSLUCINDA SOUTHERNOCTOBER 12, 2020DIGIDAYTo use a hackneyed figure, it was as though the earth had opened and swallowed her husband.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSMuch like general terms, which mean something or nothing, are expressions that have become trite and hackneyed.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERI shall probably be met with the hackneyed cry, The question is entirely one of price.
LANDHOLDING IN ENGLANDJOSEPH FISHERYou can't describe them unless you label them with the hackneyed interrogation point.
MY WONDERFUL VISITCHARLIE CHAPLINEach gentleman addressed her with some hackneyed compliment.
THE CHILD OF PLEASUREGABRIELE D'ANNUNZIONow she cared no more for the hackneyed musical word; friendship was her desire.
LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHThis is one of those hackneyed compliments to the manners of antiquity, which are often paid without the least foundation.
DRYDEN'S WORKS (13 OF 18): TRANSLATIONS; PASTORALSJOHN DRYDENWORDS RELATED TO HACKNEYED
- blah
- bland
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- conventional
- cornball
- cornfed
- corny
- dull as dishwater
- dumb
- everyday
- flat
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- hokey
- humdrum
- insipid
- mundane
- noplace
- nothing
- nowhere
- old hat
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- square
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- stupid
- tired
- tripe
- trite
- unimaginative
- unoriginal
- vapid
- watery
- wishy-washy
- zero
- boiler plate
- characterless
- clichéd
- colorless
- conventional
- corny
- customary
- dime-a-dozen
- familiar
- familiar tune
- garden variety
- hackneyed
- humdrum
- lowly
- mainstream
- matter-of-course
- mediocre
- middle-of-the-road
- middling
- mundane
- natural
- normal
- obvious
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- plebeian
- prevalent
- prosaic
- run-of-the-mill
- stale
- starch
- stereotyped
- threadbare
- trite
- typical
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninteresting
- unnoteworthy
- vanilla
- widespread
- workaday
- worn-out
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.