Commonplace word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "commonplace" word
[adjective] not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
[adjective] obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
[adjective] completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
[adjective] 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'"
\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 for commonplace
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 |
Related terms: abstraction, banal, banality, below the salt, bourgeois, bromidic, conventional, fade, familiar, frank, generalized proposition, habitual, low-camp, plain-speaking, pop, shallowness, simple-speaking, square, stale, suburban, unidealistic, worn-out
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Let's analyse "commonplace" as pure text. This string has Eleven letters in Three syllables and Four vowels. 36.4% of vowels is 2.2% less then average English word. Written in backwards: ECALPNOMMOC. Average typing speed for these characters is 2885 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
commonplace: 6 + 6 + 1 + 5 = 18, reduced: 9 . and the final result is Nine. |
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