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used-up
adjective as in dilapidated
Strongest matches
adjective as in depleted
adjective as in done
adjective as in done in
adjective as in out
adjective as in overused
adjective as in platitudinal
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- cliched
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in platitudinous
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in run down
Strongest matches
adjective as in seedy
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in threadbare
adjective as in trite
Weak matches
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- drained
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in warmed-over
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in worn
Strong matches
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- wrung out
Example Sentences
“It’s one of the most used-up chord sequences in the history of music,” Lanois says of “Make You Feel’s” descending progression.
Fry is at the end of his life and has stripped all the wealth and fame he wants from Calliope's powers, and hands her over as if she were a piece of used-up livestock.
After sending a payload of 34 small satellites to orbit, the company used a helicopter to catch the 39-foot-long used-up booster stage of the rocket before it splashed into the Pacific Ocean.
Every night Pong lay there, with the used-up glass close to his head.
It comes out angry even though how I really feel is like a used-up tissue.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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