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[ thred-bair ] / ˈθrɛdˌbɛər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR threadbare ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc. wearing threadbare clothes; shabby or poor: a threadbare old man. meager, scanty, or poor: a threadbare emotional life. hackneyed; trite; ineffectively stale: threadbare arguments. Origin of threadbareFirst recorded in 1325–75, threadbare is from the Middle English word thredbare.See thread, bare1 OTHER WORDS FROM threadbarethreadbareness, nounWords nearby threadbarethrave, thraw, thrawart, thrawn, thread, threadbare, thread blight, threaded, threaded glass, thread escutcheon, threadfin Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for threadbareEven though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound. Native American Basketball Team in Wyoming Have Hoop Dreams Of Their Own|Robert Silverman|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms. The Conservatives' Great Black Hope|Evan Gahr|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful. Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush & the Politics of Exhaustion|Nick Gillespie|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST On the other hand, the economic model is as threadbare as many of the buildings and much of the island's infrastructure. Obama Should End America’s Stupidest Foreign Policy: Isolating Cuba|Robert Shrum|February 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sequestration tore at our threadbare social safety net, and this deal leaves the damage intact. Tea Party Republicans: The Biggest Sore Winners in Washington|Jamelle Bouie|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST It was a common belief on that street that his fortune was stuffed away in some of the threadbare cushions. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway|Annie Fellows Johnston Arrived at this point, he tried to draw the skirts of his dressing-gown over a pair of angular knees encased in threadbare felt. Cousin Pons|Honore de Balzac One prefers a wooden bench to a greasy velvet cushion, and a sanded floor to a soiled and threadbare carpet. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)|Various His clothes were baggy and threadbare, his linen soiled and shabby. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908|Various Here is a scholar in his long gown, threadbare and showing signs of decay. Sidelights on Chinese Life|J. Macgowan
British Dictionary definitions for threadbare
adjective(of cloth, clothing, etc) having the nap worn off so that the threads are exposed meagre or poora threadbare existence hackneyeda threadbare argument wearing threadbare clothes; shabby Derived forms of threadbarethreadbareness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to threadbarescruffy, ratty, faded, tattered, tacky, shopworn, shabby, stale, musty, beat up, damaged, dilapidated, dingy, frowzy, impaired, injured, old, ragged, run-down, seedy |