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How to pronounce “threadbare”
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Pronunciation guide for threadbare
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of threadbare with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 5 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Lawyer’s Demistifying Murder
the carpets are threadbare, the lavatories are broken.
- Definition summary
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
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How to pronounce threadbare
Lawyer’s Demistifying Murder
the carpets are threadbare, the lavatories are broken.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “threadbare”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- (figurative)
- (archaic or obsolete) Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare (sense 1) material; hence, impoverished, poor.
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