<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.</li><li>wearing threadbare clothes; shabby or poor: a threadbare old man</li><li>meager, scanty, or poor: a threadbare emotional life</li><li>hackneyed; trite; ineffectively stale: threadbare arguments</li></ul>