commonplace
Plural: commonplaces
Noun
- a trite or obvious remark
- A platitude or cliché.
- Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
- A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
- A commonplace book.
Adjective Satellite
- completely ordinary and unremarkable
- "air travel has now become commonplace"
- "commonplace everyday activities"
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- "his remarks were trite and commonplace"
Adj
- Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
Verb
- To make a commonplace book.
- To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
- To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Origin / Etymology
A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
Synonyms
banal, banality, bromide, cliche, hackneyed, humdrum, old-hat, platitude, prosaic, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unglamorous, unglamourous, well-worn, bromidic, clichéd, commonplace, cookie-cutter, corny, dog-eared, everyday, hoary, meh, overdone, pat, played out, quotidian, routine, stale, undistinguished, unexceptional, unoriginal, vapid, warmed-over
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 21
commonplace: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcommonplace: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
commonplace: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary