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Definition of Shopworn
1. Adjective. Worn or faded from being on display in a store. "Shopworn merchandise at half price"
2. Adjective. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. "The trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
Similar to: Unoriginal
Derivative terms: Banality, Commonplace, Triteness
Definition of Shopworn
1. a. Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Definition of Shopworn
1. Adjective. used, as a sample item in a retail store ¹
2. Adjective. not fresh; tired or cliché ¹
3. Adjective. faded ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shopworn
1. worn out from being on display in a store [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shopworn
Literary usage of Shopworn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Marketing by Paul Terry Cherington (1920)
"These, quite possibly, are a bit shopworn or otherwise unpresentable, ...
Articles that grow shopworn are also periodically retouched so that practically ..."
2. The Common Pleas Reporter: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the County by Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1885)
"Where the vendor exhibits samples, and warrants the goods ordered to be like and
as good as the samples exhibited, shopworn goods are unmerchantable and not ..."
3. A Textbook on Retail Selling by Helen Rich Norton (1919)
"What is " shopworn " stock, and how is such a condition brought about? 20. ...
For what other reasons, besides the sale of shopworn or damaged stock, ..."
4. The Technique of Oil Paintings: And Other Essays by Hamilton Easter Field (1913)
"If your work gets shopworn, the same ideas cropping up over and over again, quit
painting for awhile and hire yourself out either as a nursery maid or a ..."
5. The American Teacher (1888)
"... they have accumulated a great variety of rare and valuable books and editions,
some of them slightly shopworn, but just as valuable. ..."
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