well-worn adj 1: showing signs of much wear or use 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}, {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}]