(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'
[beta] (adj-na) (1) (See べた組み) things without gaps or spaces between them; something painted or printed solid; (2) { comp } plain (e.g. plain text); (3) (sl) cliched; hackneyed
[betabeta] (adj-na, adv, n, vs) (1) (on-mim) sticky; (2) all over; (3) clinging (e.g. of a person); following around; (adj-na) (4) cliched; hackneyed; (P)