THREADBARE

[`θredbɛə]

изношенный, обветшалый, потертый, старый

банальный, избитый

бедно одетый

threadbare: translation

▪ be

▪ wear sth

▪

The carpets were worn threadbare.

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪

The government's policy is now looking pretty threadbare

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

Threadbare is used with these nouns: ↑carpet

1. потёртый, изношенный, потрёпанный

2. старый, избитый, приевшийся, не новый

3. редк. плохо одетый; в поношенной одежде; оборванный

threadbare: translation

back-number, banal, bare, bathetic, bewhiskered, boring, bromidic, cliche, cliche-ridden, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, cut-and-dried, damaged, deep-worn, dilapidated, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-heel, dull, fade, faded, familiar, frayed, fusty, hack, hackney, hackneyed, imitative, impaired, injured, monotonous, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, overused, overworked, platitudinous, played out, prosaic, ragged, run-down, scruffy, seedy, sere, set, shabby, shelfworn, shopworn, slovenly, sorry, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, tacky, tattered, tatty, tedious, timeworn, tired, tiresome, torn, trite, truistic, uncreative, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, worn, worn out, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out, wretched|

threadbare [ˊθredbeə] a

1) потёртый, изно́шенный

2) обша́рпанный, бе́дно оде́тый

3) изби́тый (о шутке, доводе и т.п.); сла́бый (об отговорке)