commonplace

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commonplace Definition

• (n) a trite or obvious remark
• (s) obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
• (s) completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
• (s) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
• (s) 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''"

commonplace Synonyms

• banal
• banality
• bromide
• cliche
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• humdrum
• old-hat
• platitude
• prosaic
• shopworn
• stock(a)
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• trivial
• unglamorous
• unglamourous
• well-worn