hackneyed

English

Alternative forms

• hacknied (obsolete)

Etymology

hackney +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhækniːd/
• (US) enPR: hăkʹnēd

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ækniːd

Adjective

hackneyed (comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed)

1. Repeated too often.

   Synonyms: banal, commonplace, clichéd, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed

   The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

   • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] ‎^[1]:

     It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.

2. (dated) Let out for hire.

Derived terms

• hackneyedness

Translations

repeated too often

• Bulgarian: изтъркан (bg) (iztǎrkan), банален (bg) (banalen), шаблонен (bg) (šablonen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陳腐的／陈腐的 (chénfǔ de), 老生常談的／老生常谈的 (lǎoshēngchángtán de)

• Czech: otřepaný, ohraný, otřelý
• Danish: fortærsket, klichéagtig, forslidt
• Dutch: afgezaagd (nl), banaal (nl)
• Finnish: kulunut (fi), kliseinen (fi)
• French: rebattu (fr), éculé (fr)
• Galician: gastado, desgastado, luído
• German: abgedroschen (de), abgenutzt (de), banal (de), ausgelutscht (de), abgegriffen (de)
• Greek: τετριμμένος (el) m (tetrimménos), κοινότοπος (el) m (koinótopos)
• Hebrew: נדוש (he) (nadósh), חבוט (khavút)
• Hungarian: elcsépelt (hu)
• Interlingua: banal, trivial
• Japanese: 陳腐な (ja) (chimpu na), 常套の (ja) (jōtō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: banal (pt), trivial (pt), batido (pt)
• Russian: изби́тый (ru) (izbítyj), зата́сканный (ru) (zatáskannyj), бана́льный (ru) (banálʹnyj), шабло́нный (ru) (šablónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: izlizan (sh), banalan (sh)
• Spanish: gastado (es), trillado (es), manido (es), manoseado (es), sobado (es), traído y llevado, tópico (es) m
• Swedish: sliten (sv), banal (sv), utnött (sv)

Verb

hackneyed

1. simple past and past participle of hackney