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hackneyed 音标拼音: [h'æknid] a. 不新奇的,常见的,陈腐的 不新奇的,常见的,陈腐的 hackneyed adj 1: 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'" [ synonym: { banal}, { commonplace}, { hackneyed}, { old- hat}, { shopworn}, { stock( a)}, { threadbare}, { timeworn}, { tired}, { trite}, { well- worn}] 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] 72 Moby Thesaurus words for " hackneyed": 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 |
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