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cliche - 8 thesaurus results
Main Entry: cliché
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overused, hackneyed phrase
Synonyms: adage, banality, bromide, buzzword, commonplace, motto, platitude, proverb, rubber stamp*, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stereotype, truism, boiler plate, chestnut*, corn*, counterword, familiar tune, old story, potboiler, prosaism, stale saying, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness, triviality, vapid expression
Antonyms: coinage, nuance
Main Entry: banality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: common saying
Synonyms: adage, buzzword, cliché, dullsville*, plate*, platitude, trivia, truism, boiler*, chestnut*, corn*, familiar tune, high camp, hokum, old chestnut, old saw, prosaicism, prosaism, saw, trite phrase, triviality
Antonyms: coinage, nuance, original saying
Main Entry: commonplace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clichéd saying or idea
Synonyms: banality, bromide*, cliché, inanity, motto, platitude, prose, rubber stamp*, shibboleth, stereotype, tag, chestnut*, corn*, prosaicism, prosaism, shallowness, triteness, triviality truism
Main Entry: jargon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: specialized language; dialect
Synonyms: abracadabra*, argot, balderdash*, banality, bombast, bunk*, cant, cliché, colloquialism, drivel, fustian, gibberish, idiom, lexicon, lingo*, mumbo jumbo*, neologism, nonsense, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, slang, speech, tongue, twaddle*, usage, vernacular, vocabulary, buzzwords, commonplace term, doublespeak, hackneyed term, insipidity, newspeak, overused term, shoptalk, slanguage, stale language, street talk, trite language
Antonyms: standard
Main Entry: platitude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dull, overused saying
Synonyms: banality, bromide*, buzzword, cliché, commonplace, evenness, inanity, monotony, motto, proverb, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, truism, verbiage, boiler plate, chestnut*, corn*, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, insipidity, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, saw, trite remark, triteness, triviality, vapidity
Antonyms: coinage, nuance
Main Entry: trite
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly, commonplace
Synonyms: banal, chain, cliché, common, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, jejune, moth-eaten*, musty*, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, ready-made, routine, run-of-the-mill*, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, vapid, worn, worn-out, bathetic, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, familiar tune, mildewed, platitudinous, used-up, warmed-over, well-worn
Antonyms: desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent, relevant, uncommon
Main Entry: stale
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overused, out-of-date
Synonyms: antiquated, banal, bent, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny*, dead, drab, dull, dusty, effete, flat, fusty, hackneyed, insipid, like a dinosaur, mawkish, moth-eaten*, out*, passé, past, platitudinous, repetitious, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless
Antonyms: current, fresh, new, underused
Main Entry: threadbare
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trite, corny
Synonyms: banal, cliché, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, everyday, familiar, hackneyed, imitative, moth-eaten*, musty, poor, set, stale, stereotyped, stock, tedious, tired, worn-out, bathetic, cliché-ridden, clichéd, overused, uncreative, well-worn
Antonyms: fresh, unused, unworn
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