What is another word for threadbare?
701 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ θɹˈɛdbe͡ə], [ θɹˈɛdbeə], [ θ_ɹ_ˈɛ_d_b_eə]
Related words: seams and features, threads and yarns and fabric, threadbare clothes, a threadbare jacket, threads and eyes, needles and pins
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Similar words for threadbare:
- all (adjective)
- bedraggled (adjective)
- boring (adjective)
- broken-down (adjective)
- bromidic (adjective)
- commonplace (adjective)
- decrepit (adjective)
- derelict (adjective)
- dilapidated (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- faded (adjective)
- hackneyed (adjective)
- moth-eaten (adjective)
- naked (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overused (adjective)
- ragged (adjective)
- scraggly (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- seedy (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- slipshod (adjective)
- stale (adjective)
- stereotyped (adjective)
- stereotypical (adjective)
- tacky (adjective)
- tattered (adjective)
- trite (adjective)
- warmed-over (adjective)
- washed-out (adjective)
- weariful (adjective)
- worn (adjective)
- worn, frayed (adjective)
- worn-out (adjective)
- worn/worn-out (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- threadbare (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Threadbare:
adj.
• all (adjective) • bedraggled (adjective) • boring (adjective) • broken-down (adjective) • bromidic (adjective) • commonplace (adjective)- starchest,
- more workaday,
- most dime-a-dozen,
- starch,
- more dime-a-dozen,
- obvious,
- more prevalent,
- most obvious,
- more unnoteworthy,
- more matter of course,
- most matter of course,
- un noteworthy,
- un eventful,
- un-noteworthy,
- middling,
- unexceptional,
- most dime a dozen,
- mainstream,
- un exceptional,
- Starcher,
- most unnoteworthy,
- most workaday,
- un-exceptional,
- unnoteworthy,
- matter-of-course,
- most matter-of-course,
- un-eventful,
- more dime a dozen,
- more matter-of-course.
- in-firmest,
- more quavering,
- un-soundest,
- in-substantial,
- in-firm,
- un-sound,
- most quavering,
- in capacitated,
- fragile,
- tumble down,
- in firmer,
- more tumble down,
- more anile,
- more fragile,
- more battered,
- most tumble-down,
- creakiest,
- superannuated,
- most tumble down,
- in-capacitated,
- most battered,
- un sound,
- un sounder,
- most anile,
- un soundest,
- more tumble-down,
- in firmest,
- un-sounder,
- in-firmer,
- in substantial,
- rickety,
- weather beaten,
- tumble-down.
- dis carded,
- un-couth,
- more castoff,
- most ownerless,
- more ownerless,
- de-solate,
- most relinquished,
- de relict,
- de-relict,
- un couth,
- de solate,
- more relinquished,
- dis-carded,
- most castoff,
- solitary,
- neglected.
- usedup,
- un kemptest,
- slummiest,
- un kempt,
- in bad way,
- more usedup,
- more fallen-in,
- more fallen in,
- most usedup,
- most fallenin,
- more marred,
- more rinkydink,
- most beat up,
- shaky,
- un kempter,
- rinky-dink,
- most marred,
- more dogeared,
- beatup,
- most used-up,
- rinky dink,
- more dog-eared,
- un improved,
- most used up,
- most dog-eared,
- more beat up,
- fallen in,
- more fallenin,
- dog eared,
- most dog eared,
- more dog eared,
- most fallen-in,
- most rinkydink,
- more beat-up,
- most beat-up,
- more rinky dink,
- dogeared,
- un-kemptest,
- most rinky dink,
- more used-up,
- most rinky-dink,
- most beatup,
- un-kempt,
- fallenin,
- un-kempter,
- more beatup,
- un-improved,
- most fallen in,
- most dogeared,
- more used up,
- more rinky-dink.
- dis colored,
- more tarnished,
- dis-colored,
- more bedimmed,
- more darkish,
- more smirched,
- most tarnished,
- most bedimmed,
- most darkish,
- most smirched,
- most discolored,
- be-dimmed,
- more discolored,
- be dimmed.
- more etiolated,
- most etiolated,
- more lusterless,
- most lusterless,
- in-distinct,
- not shiny,
- in distinct.
- old saw,
- played-out,
- old-chestnut,
- stocker,
- out of date,
- out-of-date,
- old chestnut,
- old-saw,
- out-dated.
- in dishabille,
- stark-naked,
- without a stitch,
- in the raw,
- unveiled,
- in the altogether,
- leafless,
- stark naked,
- stripped,
- in birthday suit,
- unprotected,
- bareskinned,
- undraped,
- bare-skinned,
- in the buff.
- stereotypic,
- anile,
- garden variety,
- wornout,
- boring,
- stale,
- zestless,
- down at the heel,
- bromidic,
- lusterless,
- tacky,
- scraggy,
- had it,
- the worse for wear,
- scraggly,
- dilapidated,
- ragged,
- broken-down,
- scraggiest,
- commonplace,
- workaday,
- musty,
- dingy,
- used-up,
- familiar tune,
- dog-eared,
- badly dressed,
- in a bad way,
- unstylish,
- hackneyed,
- derelict,
- run of the mill,
- in rags,
- decrepit,
- unpressed,
- cliched,
- bedraggled,
- uncared for,
- weatherbeaten,
- rinkydink,
- worn-out,
- like a dinosaur,
- seedy,
- worn-down,
- chainer,
- dime-a-dozen,
- shabby,
- creakier,
- fallen-in,
- naked,
- fouled-up,
- in firm,
- wrung out,
- slummy,
- scrubby,
- out of gas,
- readymade,
- overused,
- Mildewed,
- trite,
- worse for wear,
- drear,
- messed-up,
- stereotypical,
- down-at-heel,
- scruffy,
- boiler plate,
- slipshod,
- beat-up,
- badly groomed,
- platitudinous,
- in tatters,
- castoff,
- tatty,
- creaky,
- darkish,
- worn,
- platitudinal,
- faded,
- badly worn,
- unmeticulous,
- down at heel,
- ownerless,
- moth-eaten,
- unthorough,
- cornball,
- warmed-over,
- worn down,
- poorly made,
- stereotyped,
- slummier,
- pegged out.
- more patched,
- dis-organized,
- most frayed,
- most patched,
- more frayed,
- un finished,
- more fragmented,
- down heel,
- most rent,
- more unpressed,
- scraggier,
- un even,
- in holes,
- more rent,
- most shredded,
- dis organized,
- most fragmented,
- most unpressed,
- down the heel,
- un-pressed,
- un pressed,
- full of holes,
- more shredded,
- more frazzled,
- un-finished,
- un-even,
- most frazzled,
- full holes.
- more sagging,
- more down-at-the-heel,
- most wilted,
- most down at the heel,
- more down at the heel,
- more wilted,
- most down-at-the-heel,
- gone to seed,
- used up,
- over-grown,
- gone seed,
- over grown,
- most sagging,
- most wilting,
- more wilting.
- dis figured,
- more disfigured,
- dis reputable,
- dis-figured,
- dis-reputable,
- more deteriorating,
- povertystricken,
- most degenerated,
- most deteriorating,
- poverty stricken,
- most disfigured,
- de-generated,
- more degenerated,
- de generated.
- more messedup,
- most screwedup,
- most botched,
- un meticulous,
- more fouled-up,
- fouledup,
- un systematic,
- more fouledup,
- most messedup,
- unsystematic,
- more botched,
- more screwedup,
- screwedup,
- messedup,
- more unmeticulous,
- junkier,
- more unthorough,
- more screwed up,
- most messed up,
- un-meticulous,
- more messed up,
- most fouledup,
- junkiest,
- screwed-up,
- most messed-up,
- more fouled up,
- fly by night,
- most fouled up,
- most unthorough,
- un-systematic,
- most screwed up,
- most screwed-up,
- in accurate,
- junky,
- most fouled-up,
- more messed-up,
- most unmeticulous,
- more screwed-up.
- most cliche ridden,
- yester-day,
- more cliche ridden,
- yesterday,
- more cliche,
- cliche ridden,
- yesterday's,
- yester-day's,
- cliche-ridden,
- most zestless,
- most cliche,
- more cliche-ridden,
- yester days,
- like dinosaur,
- yester day,
- yester day's,
- more zestless,
- yester-days,
- most cliche-ridden.
- more down at heel,
- un stylish,
- more down-at-heel,
- more unstylish,
- most down-at-heel,
- un becoming,
- most down at heel,
- un suitable,
- un-becoming,
- un-suitable,
- un-stylish,
- in-elegant,
- most unstylish,
- in elegant.
- more cornball,
- chainest,
- most ready made,
- ready made,
- most mildewed,
- most ready-made,
- more mildewed,
- un-inspired,
- un inspired,
- most cornball.
n.
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- central,
- abstract,
- popular,
- utopian,
- orthodox,
- theoretical,
- nonconformist,
- metaphysical,
- deterministic,
- conceptual.
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- cellular,
- brushed,
- fibrous,
- Breathable,
- distressed,
- filmy,
- diaphanous,
- crisp,
- creased,
- colorfast.
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- better.
Other synonyms:
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- ratty.
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- shoddy.
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- rundown.
- skimpy,
- Grubber,
- hack,
- washed-out,
- degenerate,
- everyday,
- cut-and-dried,
- bald,
- antiquated,
- hand-me-down,
- cobwebby,
- nude,
- cliche,
- raddled,
- wretched,
- ripped,
- frowzy,
- back-number,
- provoke,
- common,
- bland,
- battered,
- weary,
- imitative,
- broke,
- grungy,
- dull,
- dated,
- necessitous,
- played out,
- beggarly,
- worker,
- fade,
- ancient,
- altered,
- carriage,
- antique,
- unglamorous,
- worse,
- enkindle,
- weather-beaten,
- in shreds,
- dry,
- messy,
- time-worn,
- disreputable,
- fusty,
- injured,
- hackney,
- equipage,
- used,
- taxicab,
- routine,
- roofless,
- alter,
- torn,
- dirt-poor,
- slight,
- pony,
- square,
- ho-hum,
- set,
- scanty,
- gesticulate,
- plodder,
- reworked,
- uninteresting,
- prosaic,
- jejune,
- shattered,
- impaired,
- shaken,
- kindle,
- imperfect,
- undressed,
- evoke,
- unimaginative,
- unglamourous,
- mediocre,
- archaic,
- overdone,
- shaggy,
- humdrum,
- tedious,
- monotonous,
- pensionary,
- standard,
- meager,
- shredded,
- hackney coach,
- homely,
- conventional,
- dishevelled,
- truistic,
- down-at-the-heels,
- exposed,
- rent,
- cab,
- hireling,
- uninspired,
- Unpoetic,
- improve,
- Sprung,
- grotty,
- tiresome,
- weaken,
- disordered,
- unkempt,
- gone to pot,
- flat,
- Tabid,
- pedestrian,
- flimsy,
- arouse,
- elicit,
- old,
- unimproved,
- damaged,
- undistinguished,
- trivial,
- withered,
- Ravelled,
- dead,
- untidy,
- worn to rags,
- broken,
- inadequate,
- all the worse for wear,
- needful,
- sorry,
- indigent,
- patchy,
- bewhiskered,
- Frazzled,
- uncreative,
- raggedy,
- plain,
- slim,
- harlot,
- grubby,
- Pauperized,
- withering,
- mere,
- passe,
- slogger,
- Beggared,
- secondhand,
- weathered,
- ramshackle,
- ordinary,
- Familiar,
- Divested,
- sere,
- obsolescent,
- tatterdemalion,
- tumbledown,
- ageing,
- Deteriorated,
- down-at-the-heel,
- reduced,
- patched,
- unromantic,
- spoiling,
- insubstantial,
- obsolete,
- sloppy,
- denuded,
- uninspiring,
- wear out,
- mouldy,
- bathetic,
- rough,
- famished,
- run-down,
- destitute,
- reach-me-down,
- vibrate,
- well-known,
- dirty,
- bombed-out,
- worn thin,
- bare,
- wilted,
- shopsoiled,
- run-of-the-mill,
- callow.
How to use "Threadbare" in context?
There is something inexpressibly sad about a person who is threadbare, a term that usually refers to someone who has little or no clothing or accessories. It suggests a sense of insecurity or a lack of financial stability. In fact, threadbare can also refer to a person or thing that is worn or used only partially or inadequately. In other words, it's not just a lack of clothes; it's a lack of depth, of soul.
There's something to be said for a life that is full of richness and depth. It's encouraging to see someone who is comfortable in their skin and confident in their abilities.
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