Etymology

clichéd

Today it means: Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed. Full definition →

First used early 20th c.English cliché ← French cliché
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  1. Frenchclicher
  2. Frenchcliché
  3. Englishcliché
  4. English todayclichéd

From cliché + -ed.

First known use, by meaning

  • from early 20th c. Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.