commonplace

commonplace
adj
1. ordinary, usual, general, undistinguished, unimpressive, mediocre, pedestrian, everyday, homely, workaday, Inf. run-of-the-mill; uninteresting, tame, dull, slow, sober; monotonous, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, humdrum, unvaried.
2. trite, hackneyed, platitudinous, bromidic, familiar, stock, oft-repeated, stereotyped, tautological; trivial, prosaic, banal, dry, matter-of-fact, prosy; stale, tired, thin, threadbare, worn-out, not new, unimaginative, Inf. old-hat, Inf. moth-eaten, Inf. warmed-over; colloquial, popular, vernacular, provincial; unassuming, artless, unsophisticated, untutored, uncultured, vulgar, non-literary, uneducated, jargonal, Inf. jar-gony, Inf. slangy.
n
3. cliché, platitude, Inf. bromide, old maxim, axiom, truism; prosaism, stereotype, hackneyed expression, trite saying, banality, triviality, common sentiment, twaddle, familiar tune, saw, Inf. same old song, Inf. chestnut.

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  • Commonplace — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda commonplace Álbum de Every Little Thing Publicación 10 de marzo de 2004 Grabación 2003 …   Wikipedia Español

  • commonplace — n Commonplace, platitude, truism, bromide, cliche mean an idea or expression lacking in originality or freshness. A commonplace is a stock idea or expression which is frequently little more than the obvious, conventional, and easy thing to think… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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  • Commonplace — Com mon*place , v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • commonplace — [käm′ənplās΄] n. [lit. transl. of L locus communis, Gr koinos topos, general topic] 1. Obs. a passage marked for reference or included in a COMMONPLACE BOOK 2. a trite or obvious remark; truism; platitude 3. anything common or ordinary adj.… …   English World dictionary

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