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Commonplace

Commonplace Definition And Meaning
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"monplace`\, a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. \Com"monplace`\, 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"monplace`\, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. --Felton. \Com"monplace`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Commonplace Definition And Meaning

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'"

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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