'Commonplace' definitions:
Definition of 'commonplace'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
adjective
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]
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'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
noun
Definition of 'Commonplace'
From: GCIDE
- Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Commonplace'
From: GCIDE
- Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n.
- 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. [1913 Webster]
- Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Commonplace'
From: GCIDE
- Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. --Felton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Commonplace'
From: GCIDE
- Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'commonplace'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- 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,
- 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