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Commonplace
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Commonplace Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Commonplace?
[n] a trite or obvious remark
[adj] not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [adj] obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" [adj] completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" [adj] repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" Synonyms | Synonyms for Commonplace: banal | banality | bromide | cliche | hackneyed | humdrum | ordinary | platitude | prosaic | shopworn | stock(a) | threadbare | timeworn | tired | trite | trivial | unexciting | unglamorous | unglamourous | unoriginal | well-worn Related Terms | Find terms related to Commonplace: abstraction | accustomed | ascetic | Attic | austere | average | Babbittish | back-number | bald | banal | banality | bare | baseborn | below the salt | bewhiskered | bourgeois | bromide | bromidic | campy | candid | chaste | chestnut | classic | classical | cliche | cliched | cockney | common | commonly known | commonplace expression | conventional | corn | corny | current | customary | cut-and-dried | direct | dry | dull | everyday | fade | familiar | familiar tune | flat | frank | fusty | garden | garden-variety | general | general idea | generalization | generalized proposition | glittering generality | habitual | hackney | hackneyed | hackneyed expression | hackneyed saying | high-camp | homely | homespun | household | humble | humdrum | inanity | insipid | kitschy | lean | lieu commun | locus communis | low | lowborn | lowbred | low-camp | lowly | matter-of-fact | mean | middle-class | moth-eaten | mundane | musty | natural | neat | no great shakes | nonclerical | nondescript | normal | normative | notorious | old hat | old joke | old saw | old song | old story | open | ordinary | overworked | pedestrian | Philistine | plain | plain-speaking | plain-spoken | plastic | platitude | platitudinous | plebeian | poetryless | pop | popular | predominating | prescriptive | prevailing | prevalent | prosaic | prosaicism | prosaism | prose | prosing | prosy | proverbial | public | pure | pure and simple | regular | regulation | reiteration | retold story | rubber stamp | rude | run-of-mine | run-of-the-mill | rustic | set | severe | shabby-genteel | shallowness | shibboleth | shopworn | simple | simple-speaking | sober | spare | Spartan | square | stale | standard | stark | stereotype | stereotyped | stereotyped saying | stock | straightforward | suburban | sweeping statement | tag | talked-about | talked-of | third-estate | threadbare | timeworn | tired | tired cliche | tiresome | trite | trite saying | triteness | triticism | truism | truistic | twice-told tale | typical | unadorned | unaffected | unembellished | uneventful | unexceptional | ungenteel | unidealistic | unimaginative | unimpassioned | universal | universally admitted | universally recognized | unnoteworthy | unoriginal | unpoetic | unpoetical | unremarkable | unromantic | unspectacular | unvarnished | usual | vapid | vernacular | vulgar | warmed-over | well-kenned | well-known | well-recognized | well-understood | well-worn | widely known | wishy-washiness | wonted | workaday | workday | worn | worn thin | worn-out See Also | comment | remark | truism Commonplace In Webster's Dictionary \Com"mon*place`\, a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
\Com"mon*place`\, n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. --Swift. {Commonplace book}, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. \Com"mon*place`\, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. --Felton. \Com"mon*place`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon. |
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