Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Overused
adv
Having been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.
n
An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
adj
Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.
n
banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
adj
(dated) Trite; hackneyed.
n
Formulaic or hackneyed language.
adj
Stale, banal, clichéd.
n
(informal, dated) A conventional comment or saying; a bromide.
n
(US, figuratively) Said of canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or lacks depth.
adj
Alternative spelling of clichéd [Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed.]
adj
(proscribed) clichéd; having the characteristics of a cliché
adj
Dominated or plagued by clichés.
adj
Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed.
n
The quality of being clichéd.
adj
Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
adj
Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
n
(figuratively, expressing sarcasm) A statement which is overly optimistic, results from overconfidence, or lacks realistic foresight.
adj
Alternative form of hackneyed [Repeated too often.]
adj
Repeated too often.
adj
(comedy, informal) Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)
adj
(dated, US, Canada) Boring; not interesting or novel.
adj
(occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo.
adj
Prone to using cliché phrases.
adj
(idiomatic) Very familiar; common, hackneyed or out of date.
n
(idiomatic) A cliché, saying, or overused expression; especially a proverb or maxim.
adj
Repeated too often; hackneyed.
adj
Rehearsed too many times; made formulaic by repetition.
adj
(of a word or phrase) hackneyed or clichéd
adj
(of a word, phrase, etc.) Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.
adj
Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
n
(uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
n
One who uses many platitudes in speaking or writing.
n
The tendency to use many platitudes in speaking or writing.
v
(transitive) To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.
adj
Characterised by clichés or platitudes.
adj
Hackneyed; cliché.
adj
Trite, banal, hackneyed, predictable.
n
A type of cliché which uses an old idiom formulaically placed in a new context.
adj
No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
adj
Banal, commonplace and clichéd because of overuse.
n
A cliché.
n
A commonly used phrase or piece of folk wisdom used to quell cognitive dissonance.
adj
banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed
adj
Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed.
adj
Overused, cliché.
adj
Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.
n
A banality or cliché.
adj
hackneyed; cliché
adj
(by extension) clichéd, overused or stale
adj
(by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often

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