Threadbare

Adjective

 * 1)  shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
 * 2)  wearing clothes of threadbare material
 * 3)  banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hackneyed

Adverbs for Threadbare
shabbily; shockingly; dreadfully; dingily; carelessly; pathetically; diaphanously; pitiably; miserably; curiously; inexplicably; mustily; desperately; cruelly; unutterably; sadly; grotesquely; fantastically; unnecessarily; parsimoniously; terribly; distressingly; painfully; humiliatingly; shamefully; nonchalantly; imperturbably.

Thesaurus
back-number, banal, bare, bathetic, bewhiskered, boring, bromidic, cliche, cliche-ridden, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, cut-and-dried, damaged, deep-worn, dilapidated, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-heel, dull, fade, faded, familiar, frayed, fusty, hack, hackney, hackneyed, imitative, impaired, injured, monotonous, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, overused, overworked, platitudinous, played out, prosaic, ragged, run-down, scruffy, seedy, sere, set, shabby, shelfworn, shopworn, slovenly, sorry, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, tacky, tattered, tatty, tedious, timeworn, tired, tiresome, torn, trite, truistic, uncreative, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, worn, worn out, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out, wretched

Etymology
thread + bare

Translations

 * Scottish Gaelic: lom


 * Scottish Gaelic: lom