shopworn meaning and definition

SHOPWORN adjective

Definition of shopworn (adjective)

1. worn or faded from being on display in a store
   • "shopworn merchandise at half price"
   • synonyms: 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'"
   • synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn