threadbare

Adjective Satellite

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  • "repeating threadbare jokes"
• having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
  • "threadbare rugs"

Adj

• Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
• In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
• Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
• An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
• Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare material; hence, impoverished, poor.

Synonyms

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn, almsless, arm, awanting, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, bromidic, clichéd, cookie-cutter, corny, deficient, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, dismal, dog-eared, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, everyday, exiguous, feeling the pinch, flat, geason, hard up, hoary, impecunious, impoverished, in need, inadequate, indigent, insolvent, insufficient, lank, lean, lower-class, meager, measly, meh, necessitous, needy, oofless, overdone, paltry, pat, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, played out, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, prosaic, raunchy, scant, scantling, scanty, scarce, shillingless, skimpy, skint, sleazy, slender, spare, sparse, stale, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unoriginal, unsufficient, unwealthy, vapid, wanting, wanty, warmed-over, wealthless

Antonyms

fresh, impoverished, old, poor