Letters that make hackneyed
a, d, e, k, n, c, h, y are letters that make 'hackneyed'
Words within hackneyed
Ney, AC, HA, ED, eye, eyed, hack, hackney, NE, Ac, Ne are words within 'hackneyed'
a, d, e, k, n, c, h, y are letters that make 'hackneyed'
Ney, AC, HA, ED, eye, eyed, hack, hackney, NE, Ac, Ne are words within 'hackneyed'
1 possible definitions for 'hackneyed'
Under this definition, hackneyed is an adjective and has the following properties:
commonplace, banal, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn have the same meaning as 'hackneyed'
triteness, platitude, cliche, banality, bromide, staleness, commonplace are derivatives of 'hackneyed'.
unoriginal is similar to hackneyed.
"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'"