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Commonplace   /kˈɑmənplˌeɪs/   Listen
Commonplace

adjective
1.
Completely ordinary and unremarkable.  "Commonplace everyday activities"
2.
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.  Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous.
3.
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.  Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn.  "His remarks were trite and commonplace" , "Hackneyed phrases" , "A stock answer" , "Repeating threadbare jokes" , "Parroting some timeworn axiom" , "The trite metaphor 'hard as nails'"
noun
1.
A trite or obvious remark.  Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude.



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"Commonplace" Quotes from Famous Books



... aneroid barometer, my dear. We were very comfortable and commonplace until that came along and revealed anomalies. The secret lies, I suppose, in the trend of the strata, which is generally north and south. You see the ridges cropping out all through the desert; and there's a good deal of lava oozing over them, too. They probably act as walls, to prevent the ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne
... power that will break open the hardest heart. In her book, The Drums in Our Street (1918), the glory and the tragedy of the world-struggle are expressed in terms of individual feeling. There is decided inequality in this volume, but the best pieces are so carefully distributed among the commonplace that one must read ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... I ought to tell you that I have received no encouragement from those who are the best critics of this art, though I have submitted my work to many since I left school. Some have said that my work was commonplace, others that it was imitative; all have agreed that it was dull, and they have unanimously urged me to abandon every thought of such composition. Nevertheless I am convinced that I have the highest ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... of a key; the opening of a door, are commonplace sounds to most of us; but to a prisoner, weary of his cell, they are sounds of unspeakable rapture. The dripping of a tap, may have in it the element of annoyance—if we have to get up and shut it off before we can get ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung
... poem. This is however by no means the most pleasing of his compositions. It is in the profound reflection, the melancholy tenderness, and the religious sanctity of other effusions that a lasting charm will be found. A commonplace subject, such as those announced for academical prizes generally are, was incapable of exciting a mind which, beyond almost every other, went straight to the farthest depths that the human intellect can fathom, or from which human feelings can be drawn. Many short poems ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown


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