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OLD-HAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does old-hat mean?
• OLD-HAT (adjective)
The adjective OLD-HAT has 2 senses:
1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
2. out of fashion
Familiarity information: OLD-HAT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Synonyms:
banal; commonplace; hackneyed; old-hat; shopworn; stock; threadbare; timeworn; tired; trite; well-worn
Context example:
the trite metaphor 'hard as nails'
Similar:
unoriginal (not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Out of fashion
Synonyms:
antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee
Context example:
outmoded ideas
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
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