COMMONPLACE

commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous

(adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; “an unglamorous job greasing engines”

commonplace

(adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable; “air travel has now become commonplace”; “commonplace everyday activities”

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

(adjective) 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’”

platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide

(noun) a trite or obvious remark

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

commonplace (comparative more commonplace, superlative most commonplace)

Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.

Synonyms: routine, undistinguished, unexceptional, Thesaurus:hackneyed

Antonyms: distinguished, inimitable, unique

Noun

commonplace (plural commonplaces)

A platitude or cliché.

Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.

A commonplace book.

Verb

commonplace (third-person singular simple present commonplaces, present participle commonplacing, simple past and past participle commonplaced)

To make a commonplace book.

To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.

(obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Source: Wiktionary

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Com"mon*place`, a.

Definition: 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.

Definition: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

Com"mon*place`, v. i.

Definition: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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