threadbare

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.

   “His life vvas nigh vnto deaths dore yplaſte, / And thred-bare cote, and cobled ſhoes hee vvare, […]”

2. sıfat In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.

   “Welth and wyt, I say, be so threde bare worne, / That all is without measure, and fer beyonde the mone.”

3. sıfat Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
4. sıfat An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
5. sıfat Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare (sense 1) material; hence, impoverished, poor.

   “Be gon, all Honeſty, / Thou fooliſh, ſlender, thredbare, ſtarving thing, be gon!”