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Definition: Cliched |
ClichedAdjective1. Repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: ClichedSynonym: ready-made (adj). (additional references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
William Shatner | That's right. It looked like every special effects shots of an explosion that I had ever seen. It was too cliched to be real. And it was incomprehensible. And then a second plane. That made it a little more comprehensible. It was tragedy beyond speaking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cliched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cliched" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cliched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | schablonenhaft (cardboard, stereotyped), klischeehaft (cardboard, hackneyed, stereotyped). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ichedclay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "cliched": uncliched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cliched" (pronounced klē'shā"d) |
| 3 | -sh ā" d | crocheted, shade. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-i-l" | |
-1 letter: chicle, chield, childe, cliche. | |
-2 letters: chide, chiel, child, chile. | |
-3 letters: cedi, ceil, chic, chid, deil, deli, dice, diel, elhi, heil, held, hide, hied, iced, idle, lech, lice, lich, lied. | |
-4 letters: cel, chi, del, die, edh, eld, hic, hid, hie, ice, ich, led, lei, lid, lie. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, eh, el, he, hi, id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-h-i-l" | |
+1 letter: chaliced, clinched. | |
+2 letters: cichlidae, uncliched. | |
+3 letters: chronicled, unclinched. | |
+4 letters: chalcedonic, psychedelic. | |
+5 letters: accomplished, catholicized, chalcedonies, chalcogenide, diencephalic, lockstitched, machicolated, psychedelics, unchronicled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 69 63 68 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .. -.-. .... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l i c h e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0069 0063 0068 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37787569747170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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