timeworn

comparative more timeworn · superlative most timeworn · alternative time-worn

1. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.

   The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; […]

   [1905], Maxim Gorky, “Part I”, in J. K. M. Shirazi, transl., Creatures that Once were Men, London: Alston Rivers, […], →OCLC, page 1

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   After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.

   2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text

   Synonyms: shopworn, threadbare, well-worn

2. Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.

   Synonyms: commonplace, clichéd, stock, tired, unoriginal, banal, bathetic, bromidic