Crossword clues for timeworn
Wiktionary
a. 1 showing the effects of wear due to long use 2 trite or banal; overused or hackneyed
WordNet
adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "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'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn]
Usage examples of "timeworn".
The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.
He fed him a ceremonial wafer, annointed his feet, and read, passages from a timeworn book.
Beside Emil the cyber stood tall in his scarlet robe, a splash of living color against the timeworn stone.
Children danced among circles scrawled on the timeworn pavement, caught in some inscrutable childhood fantasy--children of wealthy Winters and wealthy off worlders together, oblivious to the distances of space-time and outlook that separated their parents.
The sense of abandonment and regret was everywhere evident in the piles of icons, dusty and diademed, animal carvings, cracked and cobwebbed, altars and fonts, chipped and timeworn, in which vermin had made their nests.
The timeworn tradition of exit polling had been one of the casualties of the 2000 Presidential election.
I believed that my sense of direction had not altogether deserted me and I was heading for the mysterious pile of timeworn masonry on the point.
The plains themselves led up into the Signal Mountains, an ancient range, timeworn by wind and rain, now no more than high tors, no more than the spines and ribs of former giants, curving in a long easterly arc from Challerain Keep in the far north to Beacontor and the Dellin Downs in the south.