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 , shopworn , stock , threadbare , timeworn , tired , trite , well-worn ]

out of fashion; a suit of rather antique appearance; demode (or outmoded) attire; outmoded ideas

[ Syn: antique , demode , ex , old-fashioned , outmoded , passe , passee ]