Usual vs Threadbare - What's the difference?
usual | threadbare | Related terms |
most commonly occurring
(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
damaged or shabby
* Thomas Carlyle
(of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
(of speech) banal or ; trite or hackneyed
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 21
, author=Jason Heller
, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
, work=The Onion AV Club
Usual is a related term of threadbare.
As adjectives the difference between usual and threadbare
is that usual is most commonly occurring while threadbare is (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show.usual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
- It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
Synonyms
* common, wonted, normal, standard, regular, ordinary, plain, simpleAntonyms
* unusualDerived terms
* usualness * usually * unusual * as usualExternal links
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Unkempt, in threadbare clothes, with holed shoes and sun-cured hide, my costume is permanent: the traveler, the man from far away.
- Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.
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