(adj) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse, Syn. hackneyed, threadbare, timeworn, tired, shopworn, old-hat, well-worn, trite, stock, commonplace, Example: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'