commonplace : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: commonplace	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for commonplace
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commonplace adj completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" Synonym(s): commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous 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'" Synonym(s): banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn n a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commonplace \Com"monplace`\, a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace* person, or observation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commonplace \Com"monplace`\, 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"monplace`\, 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`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon.