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Synonyms for clichéd

  • adjective

Most common

corny trite unoriginal hackneyed time-worn well-worn overdone hoary

All synonyms

Adjective

hackneyed, trite, corny, unoriginal, well-worn, overdone, time-worn, hoary, ready-made, overworked, banal, threadbare, stale, commonplace, warmed-over, bromidic

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed.

Related words

Other spellings
cliched

Example sentences

  • corny Mary's the only one who laughs at Tom's corny jokes.
  • trite The "twin tiger cubs get separated ..." story felt a bit trite.
  • hackneyed A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.

By length

5 letters
stale1, corny2, banal2, trite1, hoary2
8 letters
overdone3, bromidic
9 letters
hackneyed2
10 letters
overworked3, unoriginal, threadbare2
11 letters
commonplace3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (corny2 = 2 syllables).