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threadbare adjective [ ˈθrɛdbɛː ]

• (of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) becoming thin and tattered with age.
• "tatty rooms with threadbare carpets"
Similar: worn, well worn, old, thin, worn out, holey, moth-eaten, mangy, ragged, frayed, tattered, battered, decrepit, shabby, scruffy, unkempt, having seen better days, falling apart at the seams, in shreds, in tatters, falling to pieces, tatty, ratty, the worse for wear, raggedy, raggedy-ass, warby, out at elbows,
Opposite: pristine,


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