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commonplace — n Commonplace, platitude, truism, bromide, cliche mean an idea or expression lacking in originality or freshness. A commonplace is a stock idea or expression which is frequently little more than the obvious, conventional, and easy thing to think… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Commonplace — Com mon*place , n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. [1913 Webster] 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. [1913 Webster] Whatever, in my reading,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Commonplace book — Commonplace Com mon*place , n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. [1913 Webster] 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. [1913 Webster] Whatever, in my … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
commonplace — [adj] usual, everyday boiler plate*, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime a dozen*, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety*, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matterof course, mediocre, middle of the… … New thesaurus
Commonplace Book — Notes (5,000 words); written between late 1919/early 1920 and 1935. First published in The Notes & Commonplace Book(Futile Press, 1938); rpt. BWS, SR,and MW. Annotated version in Commonplace Book(1987). No “book” at all, HPL’s commonplace… … An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia
commonplace — I UK [ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs] / US [ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs] adjective not unusual It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home. II UK [ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs] / US [ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs] noun [countable] Word forms commonplace : singular commonplace plural… … English dictionary
commonplace — com|mon|place1 [ kamən,pleıs ] adjective not unusual: It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home. commonplace com|mon|place 2 [ kamən,pleıs ] noun count FORMAL 1. ) something that often happens or is often done and is therefore… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
commonplace — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, abstraction, accustomed, ascetic, austere, average, back number, bald, banal, banality, bare, baseborn, below the salt, bewhiskered, bourgeois, bromide, bromidic, campy, candid,… … Moby Thesaurus
commonplace — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ordinary, usual, everyday; prosy, monotonous, stale, tedious, hackneyed, threadbare, trite, banal. See habit. Ant., unusual, special. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. usual, hackneyed, trite, mundane;… … English dictionary for students
platitude — noun absence of meaning, banality, cliche, commonplace expression, commonplace idea, commonplace phrase, dearth of ideas, dull comment, flat saying, hackneyed expression, hackneyed idea, hackneyed phrase, hackneyed saying, inanity, insipid remark … Law dictionary
