1. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
   "parroting some timeworn axiom"
   - banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn [N. Amer], stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn, shop-soiled [Brit]

See also: unoriginal

• back exercise
• back judge
• back matter
• back of beyond
• back of Bourke
• back off
• back out
• back passage
• back porch
• back to front
• back tooth
• back-alley
• back-formation
• back-geared
• back-number
• back-street
• back-to-back
• backache
• backband
• backbeat
• backbench
• backbencher
• backbend
• backbite
• backbiter