threadbare

1. (figurative)Examples: "Welth and wyt, I say, be so threde bare worne, / That all is without measure, and fer beyonde the mone."; "From an Underſtanding and a Conſcience, thread-bare and ragged vvith perpetual turning; […]"; "Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out."Synonyms: awanting, deficient, dismal, exiguous, geason, inadequate, insufficient, lankfiguratively

2. (figurative)Synonyms: banal, bromidic, quotidian, clichéd, commonplace, cookie-cutter, corny, dog-earedAntonyms: fresh, oldfiguratively

3. (figurative)Examples: "But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself."Synonyms: awanting, deficient, dismal, exiguous, geason, inadequate, insufficient, lankfiguratively

4. (archaic or obsolete) Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare (sense 1) material; hence, impoverished, poor.Examples: "Be gon, all Honeſty, / Thou fooliſh, ſlender, thredbare, ſtarving thing, be gon!"Synonyms: broke, down at heel, penniless, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggaredAntonyms: impoverished, poorarchaicobsolete