Definitions for cliche

cliche cli·ché

Spelling: [klee-shey, kli-]
IPA: /kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ-/

Cliche is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in cliche (ccehil).

Definitions for cliche

noun

  1. a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
  2. (in art, literature, drama, etc.) a trite or hackneyed plot, character development, use of color, musical expression, etc.
  3. anything that has become trite or commonplace through overuse.
  4. British Printing. a stereotype or electrotype plate. a reproduction made in a like manner.

adjective

  1. trite; hackneyed; stereotyped; clichéd.

Origin of cliche

1825-35; French: stereotype plate, stencil, cliché, noun use of past participle of clicher to make such a plate, said to be imitative of the sound of the metal pressed against the matrix

Examples for cliche

They were molded in an old system, and could not change their cliche.

It's cliche to say, but a GOP that is not held captive to its radical wing is in everyone's best interest.

Kennon winced at the cliche It was so ancient that it had lost all meaning.

He biffed and blathered; no one will recall what he said other than the cliche he offered up that “these are different times.”

There is a cliche in nearly every line of the Athenæum's discriminating notice.

Or maybe both cultures got off on a glorious combination of cliche and novelty, even if they disagreed on which was which.

I realize how cliche and seemingly insufficient that sounds.

I'm not sure that artist-chosen shows are of that much curatorial or art-historical use, and anyway they've become a cliche.

The beautiful casts of the French medals known to all electrotypers as cliche moulds are in the alloy No. 3.

As the cliche goes, "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

Word Value for cliche
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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