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Staleness

adj.

hackneyed

Meaning: unoriginal, trite

Usage: A girl can only hear “I love you” so many times before it begins to sound hackneyed and meaningless.

adj.

trite

Meaning: not original, overused

Usage: Keith thought of himself as being very learned, but everyone else thought he was trite because his observations about the world were always the same as David Letterman’s.

adj.

derivative

Meaning: taken directly from a source, unoriginal

Usage: She was bored by his music because she felt that it was derivative and that she had heard it before.