Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
heads. --Felton.
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Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
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Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
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Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n.
1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a
trite or customary remark; a platitude.
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2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
referred to.
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Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our
fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by
way of commonplace. --Swift.
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Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of
things to be remembered.
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commonplace
adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
prose" [syn: banal, trivial]
2: completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now
become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: humdrum, prosaic,
unglamorous, unglamourous]
4: 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'" [syn: banal, hackneyed,
old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality,
bromide]
WordNet (r) 2.0
209 Moby Thesaurus words for "commonplace":
Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, abstraction, accustomed,
ascetic, austere, average, 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, low-camp, lowborn,
lowbred, 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, 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, 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
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