Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
well worn
(well worn)
adjective
showing the signs of extensive use or wear:
a well-worn leather armchair
(of a phrase, idea, or joke) used or repeated so often that it no longer has interest or significance:
a well-worn theme
Nearby Words
well thumbed
well timed
well travelled
well tried
well trodden
well turned
well upholstered
well used
well woman
well worn
well wrought
well-being
well-nigh
well-taken
well-to-do
well-wisher
Welland Canal
Welles, Orson
Wellesley