hackneyed

Repeated too often.

Adjective

  1. Repeated too often.
    • The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
    • It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new...

    Synonyms: banal commonplace clichéd shopworn stock threadbare timeworn tired trite unoriginal well-worn

  2. Let out for hire.

Origin

Etymology tree English hackney English -ed English hackneyed From hackney + -ed.

Forms

more hackneyed most hackneyed hacknied

Synonyms

banal bathetic bromidic cheesy clichéd commonplace corny dog-eared hackneyed hoary overdone overused overworked pat played out shopworn stale threadbare timeworn tired trite warmed-over well-worn

Antonyms

fresh new original

Hypernyms

common repeated repetitive

Related

boring cookie-cutter mediocre monotonous unoriginal saying

Derived

hackneyedness unhackneyed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of hackney

Forms

hacknied