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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  well-worn
       adj 1: showing signs of much wear or use
       2: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
          sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
          "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
          threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
          trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace,
           hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare,
           timeworn, tired, trite]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  well-worn
     a.
     1 showing signs of wear because of extensive use
     2 (lb en by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  well-worn
     a.
     1 showing signs of wear because of extensive use
     2 (lb en by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  well-worn
     a.
     1 showing signs of wear because of extensive use
     2 (lb en by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  well-worn
     a.
     1 showing signs of wear because of extensive use
     2 (lb en by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Well-worn /wˈɛlwˈɔːn/
  متكرر، مستعمل بشكل كبير

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  well-worn /wˈɛlwˈɔːn/ 
  obnošený

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  well-worn /wˈɛl wˈɔːn/
  abgenutzt, abgewetzt, verschlissen, ramponiert, schäbig 
           Note: Kleidung, Einrichtung
     Synonyms: run-down, beat-up, shabby, ratty
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  well-worn /wˈɛl wˈɔːn/
  ausgetreten, ausgelatscht  [ugs.]
        "well-worn shoes"  - ausgetretene Schuhe

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  well-worn /wˈɛlwˈɔːn/
  dobro iskorišten, istrošen

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  well-worn /ˌwelˈwɔ:n/ 
    wytarty

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  wellworn /wˈɛlwɔːn/
  1. iyice eskimiş, çok giyilmiş
  2. bayatlamış
  3. lâyık, hak edilmiş, değimli.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "well-worn":
     automatic, back-number, banal, bare, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic,
     common, commonplace, constant, corny, cut-and-dried, deep-worn,
     dog-eared, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hackney,
     hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, persistent, platitudinous,
     recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, sere, set,
     shelfworn, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare,
     timeworn, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known,
     well-trodden, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags,
     worn to threads, worn-down
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

  well-worn
     a. 用旧了的,陈腐的

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