hackneyed

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

used too often and therefore boring: a hackneyed phrase / subject

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

hackneyedEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary hackneyedEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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habitation habit-forming habitual habituated habitue hacienda hack hacked off hacker hacking cough hackles

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Is hackneyed a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, hackneyed is tagged as adjective.

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