Commonplace

Quick meaning: Commonplace is an adjective meaning Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.

Meaning

Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.

More Meanings

1. A platitude or cliché.
2. Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
3. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
4. A commonplace book.
5. (transitive) To make a commonplace book.
6. (transitive) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Example Sentences

Commonplace sounds had turned into threats.

Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.

In the old days, hopping onto the platform from a not-yet-stopped train was a commonplace stunt for daily commuters in a hurry.

"This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."

Word Forms

• common place
• common-place
• commonplaces
• commonplacing
• commonplaced

Synonyms for commonplace

Depending on context, synonyms include routine, undistinguished, unexceptional, quotidian, banal, bathetic.

Antonyms for commonplace

Common opposites include distinguished, inimitable, unique.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prosaic, cliche, banality, hackneyed, trite, platitude.

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