commonplace

  • (s) completely ordinary and unremarkable
    • air travel has now become commonplace
    • commonplace everyday activities
  • (s) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
    • an unglamorous job greasing engines
    humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous, prosaic,
  • (s) 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, shopworn, tired, well-worn,

Nouns

Synonyms

banality cliche platitude bromide humdrum unglamorous unglamourous prosaic banal hackneyed old-hat stock threadbare timeworn trite shopworn tired well-worn

Words of close approximity

commonplace book commonplaceness