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timeworn

adj
/ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/

Etymology

From time + worn.

Definitions

  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; […]
    • 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.

  2. Banal or trite

    Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for timeworn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA