Meaning of MOTH-EATEN

Pronunciation:			'moth`eetn
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race" [adj]  worn or eaten away by or as if by moths; "moth-eaten blankets" [adj]  showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
	Websites:
	Synonyms:		old, ratty, shabby, stale, tatty, unoriginal, worn
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		anile, archaic, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, common, commonplace, corny, crabbed, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dated, debilitated, decrepit, despoiled, dilapidated, dingy, doddered, doddering, doddery, down-at-heel, dusty, fade, faded, familiar, feeble, flyblown, fossilized, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gerontal, gerontic, gone to seed, hackney, hackneyed, infirm, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, mossbacked, moss-grown, mummylike, musty, old hat, outdated, palsied, papery-skinned, passe, platitudinous, ravaged, ravaged with age, rickety, rococo, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run-down, rusty, seedy, senile, set, shabby, shaky, shriveled, smutted, smutty, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stricken in years, tattered, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tottering, tottery, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, weak, weevily, well-known, well-worn, withered, wizened, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, worn thin