tired as in depleted of strength or energy
- "tired mothers with crying babies"
- "too tired to eat"
tired as in repeated too often
- "overfamiliar through overuse"
- "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'"
Synonyms
- banalrepeated too often
- commonplacea trite or obvious remark ; completely ordinary and unremarkable; not challenging; repeated too often
- hackneyedrepeated too often
- old-hatrepeated too often; out of fashion
- shopwornworn or faded from being on display in a store; repeated too often
- stock(a)
- threadbarerepeated too often; having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- timewornrepeated too often
- triterepeated too often
- well-wornshowing signs of much wear or use ; repeated too often