Hypertext Webster Gateway: "commonplace"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
heads. --Felton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commonplace \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
commonplace
adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
prose" [syn: {banal}, {trivial}]
2: completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now
become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: {humdrum}, {prosaic},
{unglamorous}, {unglamourous}]
4: 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'" [syn: {banal}, {hackneyed},
{shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired},
{trite}, {well-worn}]
n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {banality},
{bromide}]
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