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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
hackney + -ed
Pronunciation
Adjective
hackneyed (comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed)
- Repeated too often.
- Synonyms: banal, commonplace, clichéd, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed
The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat :It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.
- (dated) Let out for hire.
Derived terms
Translations
repeated too often
- Bulgarian: изтъркан (bg) (iztǎrkan), банален (bg) (banalen), шаблонен (bg) (šablonen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 陳腐的／陈腐的 (chénfǔ de), 老生常談的／老生常谈的 (lǎoshēngchángtán de)
- Czech: otřepaný, ohraný, otřelý
- Danish: fortærsket, klichéagtig, forslidt
- Dutch: afgezaagd (nl), banaal (nl)
- Finnish: kulunut (fi), kliseinen (fi)
- French: rebattu (fr), éculé (fr)
- Galician: gastado, desgastado, luído
- German: abgedroschen (de), abgenutzt (de), banal (de), ausgelutscht (de), abgegriffen (de)
- Greek: τετριμμένος (el) m (tetrimménos), κοινότοπος (el) m (koinótopos)
- Hebrew: נדוש (he) (nadósh), חבוט (khavút)
- Hungarian: elcsépelt (hu)
- Interlingua: banal, trivial
- Japanese: 陳腐な (ja) (chimpu na), 常套の (ja) (jōtō)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: banal (pt), trivial (pt), batido (pt)
- Russian: изби́тый (ru) (izbítyj), зата́сканный (ru) (zatáskannyj), бана́льный (ru) (banálʹnyj), шабло́нный (ru) (šablónnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: izlizan (sh), banalan (sh)
- Spanish: gastado (es), trillado (es), manido (es), manoseado (es), sobado (es), traído y llevado, tópico (es) m
- Swedish: sliten (sv), banal (sv), utnött (sv)
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Verb
hackneyed
- simple past and past participle of hackney