timeworn

adj — 2 senses

timeworn

adj

/ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/

Etymology From time + worn.

1

Showing the effects of wear due to long use.

  • The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; […][1905], Maxim Gorky, “Part I”, in J. K. M. Shirazi, transl., Creatures that Once were Men, London: Alston Rivers, […], →OCLC, page 1:
  • After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
2

Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.

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