Rehashed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To adapt previously shared content for a new context or audience while making only minor adjustments in presentation or wording
2. To present old material again with slight or no modification, often in a similar format or style
3. To take existing ideas or content and offer them anew with minor alterations, without significant innovation

Etymology: "Rehashed" is the past tense and past participle of "rehash," so its story is really the story of the verb. "Hash" comes from the French "hacher," to chop, and the English noun meant a dish of chopped meat, later a jumble of mixed-up bits. To rehash something is to chop it up and serve it again, which is why the word carries the sense of presenting old material as if it were new. The prefix "re-" is the familiar one meaning "again," inherited through Latin and Old French, and it was attached to "hash" in English. The verb's sense of rework and repeat grew naturally from the image of reheating leftovers. The word is a simple compound, so the most useful thing to know is that the kitchen image is still there beneath the modern sense of recycled ideas.

Synonyms: repeated, reworked, revised, recycled, reused

Antonyms: original, new, innovative, fresh, novel