[ふるい, furui] (adj-i) old (not person); aged; ancient; antiquated; stale; threadbare; outmoded; obsolete article; (P) #1,264[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Threadbare \Thread"bare`\, a.
1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and
threadbare quotations. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
threadbare
adj 1: 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}, {well-worn}]
2: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;
"threadbare rugs"
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