英语词汇“threadbare”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

threadbare

/ˈθrɛdbɛː

adjective

1(Of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) becoming thin and tattered with age: tatty rooms with threadbare carpets...

He was issued with a thin mat and a threadbare blanket and taken to the cell block.
The wind was bitter against his bare legs and feet, and it tore straight through his threadbare clothing.
I had two dresses, one nightgown, three pair of undergarments and a thin, threadbare cloak.

Synonyms

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

informal tatty, ratty, the worse for wear

North American informal raggedy, raggedy-ass

Australian informal warby

rare out at elbows

1.1(Of a person, building, or room) poor or shabby in appearance: we huddle round a cassette deck in a threadbare rehearsal room...

My room is pretty threadbare right now, but Rebecca promised that tomorrow we will go buy furniture for me.
As I raced back to the threadbare offices, where we tapped out stories on half-sheets of paper hunched over manual typewriters, my adrenaline was pumping.
Bangkok has dozens of rather dreary, threadbare hotels in the £10 - £30 range, while below and above that you can really get good value.

1.2(Of an argument, excuse, idea, etc.) used so often that it is no longer effective: the song was a tissue of threadbare clichés...

Hanford Burr's "Around the Fire" stories never grow old or threadbare.
Initially, capitalist market conditions were introduced into Russia under a somewhat threadbare banner of " democracy ".
Unfortunately, the Cole royal commission may also end up the perfect mechanism for destroying the already threadbare authority of royal commissions.

单词	threadbare
释义	threadbare /ˈθrɛdbɛː / adjective 1(Of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) becoming thin and tattered with age: tatty rooms with threadbare carpets... He was issued with a thin mat and a threadbare blanket and taken to the cell block. The wind was bitter against his bare legs and feet, and it tore straight through his threadbare clothing. I had two dresses, one nightgown, three pair of undergarments and a thin, threadbare cloak. Synonyms 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 informal tatty, ratty, the worse for wear North American informal raggedy, raggedy-ass Australian informal warby rare out at elbows 1.1(Of a person, building, or room) poor or shabby in appearance: we huddle round a cassette deck in a threadbare rehearsal room... My room is pretty threadbare right now, but Rebecca promised that tomorrow we will go buy furniture for me. As I raced back to the threadbare offices, where we tapped out stories on half-sheets of paper hunched over manual typewriters, my adrenaline was pumping. Bangkok has dozens of rather dreary, threadbare hotels in the £10 - £30 range, while below and above that you can really get good value. 1.2(Of an argument, excuse, idea, etc.) used so often that it is no longer effective: the song was a tissue of threadbare clichés... Hanford Burr's "Around the Fire" stories never grow old or threadbare. Initially, capitalist market conditions were introduced into Russia under a somewhat threadbare banner of " democracy ". Unfortunately, the Cole royal commission may also end up the perfect mechanism for destroying the already threadbare authority of royal commissions.
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