English Dictionary

threadbare

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈθɹɛdbɛə(ɹ)/

形容詞

布製 人物

(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show / damaged or shabby / (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material / banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

日本語の意味

（布地が）擦り切れた、すり切れた、使い込まれて糸が透け出るほどに傷んだ状態 / （物が）損傷や老朽化により見劣りする状態 / （人が）古くさい、使い古された衣服を着用している状態 / 陳腐であり、使い古された表現や考え方

He wrapped himself in a threadbare coat as he waited for the last bus on the cold, rainy night.

彼は寒くて雨の降る夜、終バスを待ちながら擦り切れて経糸が見えるぼろぼろのコートに身を包んでいた。

意味（1）

(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show

Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.

意味（2）

damaged or shabby

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.

意味（3）

(of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material

意味（4）

banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself.

more threadbare （ comparative ）

most threadbare （ superlative ）