shopworn Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite worn or faded from being on display in a store
    shopsoiled.
    • shopworn merchandise at half price
  2. adjective satellite repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    well-worn; commonplace; hackneyed; tired; old-hat; timeworn; trite; banal; threadbare; stock.
    • bromidic sermons
    • his remarks were trite and commonplace
    • hackneyed phrases
    • a stock answer
    • repeating threadbare jokes
    • parroting some timeworn axiom
    • the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

WordNet


Shop"worn` adjective
Definitions
  1. Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

Webster 1913