Hackneyed

/ˈhækniːd/

Synonyms for "hackneyed" (159 found)

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Adjective(8 words)

banal tritebanal ideacanned charter cheesy commonplacecommonplace phrase

antediluvian antiquated archaic automaticback numberback-number banal bathetic beaten bewhiskered bromidic chain cliche cliched commoncommonly knowncommonplace

Adjective(4 words)

banal bromidicclichédcommonplace

Verb(1 words)

chewed

Noun(2 words)

clichecliché

Strong matches (48)

constant conventional corny currentcut-and-driedeveryday fade familiar frequent fusty habitual hack hackney householdmoth eatenmoth-eaten musty notorious obsoleteold hat

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out-of-dateoutmoded

Adjective(7 words)

cookie-cutter corny dog-eared everyday hoary meh overdone

Adjective(17 words)

cornier corniest etymology formulaicfrench clichéhirehistorical sensehoarier hoariest hoarser lease moldiest moldymost commonplacemouldy mustiest old-hat

Noun(1 words)

feeling tired

Verb(1 words)

overplayed

Related words (79)

Adjective(13 words)

overused rent shopworn staler stereotyped stock threadbare timeworn tired tiredest triter tritest well-worn

overworked pedestrian persistent platitudinous proverbial public quotidian ready-made recurrent recurring regular repetitive routine set square stale stereotyped stocktalked abouttalked-about

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talked-of threadbare time-worn timeworn tired trite truistictwice tolduniversally admitteduniversally recognizedunoriginal usualwarmed overwarmed-over well-kenned well-known well-recognized well-trodden well-understood well-wornwidely knownwornworn thinworn-out

Adjective(15 words)

patplayed outprosaic quotidian shopworn stale stock threadbare timeworn tired trite unoriginal vapid warmed-over well-worn

Noun(4 words)

rechauffe stalingtime worntypical physics problem

Verb(3 words)

rehashed staled trodden

Related word relations

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More general

10 entries

adjectivedescriptive termetymologyhistorical meaninglinguistic featureprovision of transportqualitative descriptorrhetorical devicetransportation servicevehicle hire

More specific

10 entries

archaic registerbanal expressioncarriage hirecoach hireformulaic expressionhackney carriage servicehistorical usageoverused metaphorstereotyped phrasestock phrase

Collocations

7 entries

hackneyed expressionhackneyed languagehackneyed phrasehackneyed plothackneyed rhetorichackneyed stereotypehackneyed trope

Inflections

4 entries

hackneying hackneysmore hackneyedmost hackneyed

Derivations

6 entries

hackney hackneyedly hackneyedness hackneyer hackneying hackneys

similar

1 entries

unoriginal

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.

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It's better not to use rhyme than to use hackneyed rhyme.

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I could only come up with hackneyed lines.

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In Russian, "love" and "blood", "night" and "help", "roses" and "frost", and so on are all good examples of hackneyed rhymes.

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