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Definition of threadbare : 1. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
2. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.

Synonyms:

shoddy, scrubby, shabby, warmed-over, stock, corny, down-at-heel, usual, scruffy, shopworn, everyday, stereotypic, decrepit, worn-out, old-hat, faded, platitudinous, seedy, tacky, commonplace, dingy, stereotypical, well-worn, bromidic, better, worn, timeworn, overworked, platitudinal, ratty, tatty, sleazy, poor, dull, ragged, unoriginal, hackneyed, common, musty, excite, tedious, bedraggled, overused, mangy, rundown, broken-down, decaying, stale, trite, tired, stereotyped, dilapidated, banal, tattered

Usage examples:

• We were here shown the bed upon which Peter the Great died, across which lay his threadbare dressing- gown and night- cap. - "Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia", Maturin M. Ballou.
• She looked coldly at the threadbare sofa and indulgently at the young man who filled a corner of it. - "The Greater Inclination", Edith Wharton.
• With both hands raised above his head and his thin, cuffless wrists stretching out of his threadbare sleeves, he stood for a tense moment in silence. - "The Portal of Dreams", Charles Neville Buck.