COMMONPLACE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a trite or obvious remark
   Synonym(s)
   • banality (what does banality mean?)
   • bromide (what does bromide mean?)
   • cliche (what does cliche mean?)
   • platitude (what does platitude mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) commonplace is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • remark (what does remark mean?)
   • comment (what does comment mean?)
   • truism (what does truism mean?)

COMMONPLACE as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • not challenging
   • dull and lacking excitement
   Synonym(s)
   • humdrum (what does humdrum mean?)
   • prosaic (what does prosaic mean?)
   • unglamorous (what does unglamorous mean?)
   • unglamourous (what does unglamourous mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • an unglamorous job greasing engines
   Similar To
   • unexciting (what does unexciting mean?)
2. Meaning
   • obvious and dull
   Synonym(s)
   • banal (what does banal mean?)
   • trivial (what does trivial mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • trivial conversation
   • commonplace prose
   Similar To
   • ordinary (what does ordinary mean?)
3. Meaning
   • completely ordinary and unremarkable
   Usage Example(s)
   • air travel has now become commonplace
   • commonplace everyday activities
   Similar To
   • ordinary (what does ordinary mean?)
4. Meaning
   • repeated too often
   • overfamiliar through overuse
   Synonym(s)
   • banal (what does banal mean?)
   • hackneyed (what does hackneyed mean?)
   • old-hat (what does old-hat mean?)
   • shopworn (what does shopworn mean?)
   • stock(a) (what does stock(a) mean?)
   • threadbare (what does threadbare mean?)
   • timeworn (what does timeworn mean?)
   • tired (what does tired mean?)
   • trite (what does trite mean?)
   • well-worn (what does well-worn mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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”
   Similar To
   • unoriginal (what does unoriginal mean?)