depleted of strength or energy; tired mothers with crying babies; too tired to eat'

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 , threadbare , timeworn , trite , well-worn ]