Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

shopwornmore about shopworn

shopworn


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shopworn  \Shop"worn`\,  a. 
  Somewhat  worn  or  damaged  by  having  been  kept  for  a  time  in  a 
  shop. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shopworn 
  adj  1:  worn  or  faded  from  being  on  display  in  a  store;  "shopworn 
  merchandise  at  half  price"  [syn:  {shopsoiled}] 
  2:  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'"  [syn:  {banal},  {commonplace}, 
  {hackneyed},  {stock(a)},  {threadbare},  {timeworn},  {tired}, 
  {trite},  {well-worn}] 




more about shopworn