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Overused vs Timeworn - What's the difference?

overused | timeworn |

As adjectives the difference between overused and timeworn

is that overused is used too much, or too often while timeworn is showing the effects of wear due to long use.

overused

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • used too much, or too often
  • (of a word or phrase) hackneyed or

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    * overuse

    timeworn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • showing the effects of wear due to long use
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
  • trite or banal; overused or hackneyed

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