Definitions for: Commonplace


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



Webster (1913) Definition: Com"mon*place`, a.
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.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
heads. --Felton.


Com"mon*place`, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

Synonyms: banal, banality, bromide, cliche, hackneyed, humdrum, ordinary, platitude, prosaic, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, trivial, unexciting, unglamorous, unglamourous, unoriginal, well-worn

See Also: comment, remark, truism

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