英和和英

語源

From hackney + -ed. Most likely from the fact that hackney carriages have been used so much, that they are extremely commonplace now.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhæk.nid/, [ˈhæknɪi̯d]
• (米国発音) enPR: hăkʹnēd
• 韻: -ækniːd
• ハイフネーション: hack‧neyed

形容詞

hackneyed (comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed)

1. Repeated too often.

   Synonyms: banal, commonplace, clichéd, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed

   The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

   • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] ‎:

     It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.

   • 1999 November 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of The Times: A Single Girl Takes On the California Frontier”, in The New York Times (E section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:

     Throughout the novel Ms. Allende uses Eliza and Tao's adventures as an excuse for hackneyed historical observations about the gold rush madness of the 1850's -- much the way she used her hero's peregrinations in "The Infinite Plan" (1993) as an excuse for cliched remarks on the 1960's.

2. (dated) Let out for hire.

派生語

動詞

hackneyed

1. simple past and past participle of hackney