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com·mon·place  (kmn-pls)

adj.

Having no remarkable features, characteristics, or traits; ordinary.

n.

1.

a. A trite or obvious remark; a platitude: "the solidified commonplaces of established wisdom" (John Simon). See Synonyms at cliché.

b. Something that is ordinary or common.

2. Archaic A passage marked for reference or entered in a commonplace book.

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[Translation of Latin locus commnis, generally applicable literary passage, translation of Greek koinos topos.]

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common·placeness n.

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commonplace

Adjective

1. so common or frequent as not to be worth commenting on: foreign holidays have now become commonplace

2. dull or unoriginal: a commonplace observation

Noun

1. a cliché

2. an ordinary thing [translation of Latin locus communis argument of wide application]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	commonplace - a trite or obvious remark             banality, cliche, platitude, bromide comment, remark, input - a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" truism - an obvious truth
Adj.	1.	commonplace - completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
	2.	commonplace - not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous, prosaic unexciting - not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life"
	3.	commonplace - 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'" banal, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn, tired, shopworn unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

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commonplace

adjective 1. everyday, common, ordinary, widespread, pedestrian, customary, mundane, vanilla (slang) banal, run-of-the-mill, humdrum, dime-a-dozen (informal) << OPPOSITE rare

noun 2. cliché, platitude, banality, truism

Translations

commonplace [ˈkɔmənpleɪs] adj → corriente

commonplace [ˈkɔmənpleɪs] common adj → banal(e) → ordinaire

commonplace [ˈkɔmənpleɪs] common adj → alltäglich

commonplace [ˈkɔmənpleɪs] adj → banale, ordinario/a