Open English Wordnet
Adjectives
(s)banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-wornrepeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse“his remarks were trite and commonplace”, “hackneyed phrases”, “a stock answer”, “repeating threadbare jokes”, “parroting some timeworn axiom”, “the trite metaphor ‘hard as nails’”