Adjective: commonplace 'kó-mun,pleys
- Completely ordinary and unremarkable
"air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
- Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
"He found his office job unbearably commonplace";
- humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous [Brit, non-standard], mundane
- Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
"his remarks were trite and commonplace";
- banal, hackneyed, old-hat [informal], shopworn [N. Amer], stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn, shop-soiled [Brit]
- A trite or obvious remark
"His speech was full of commonplaces about hard work and perseverance";
- platitude, cliché, banality, bromide
Derived forms: commonplaces
See also: clichéd, cornball [N. Amer, informal], hacky [informal], ordinary, unexciting, unoriginal
Type of: comment, input, remark, truism
Encyclopedia: Commonplace