Associations to the word «Commonplace»

COMMONPLACE, adjective. Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.

COMMONPLACE, noun. A platitude or cliché.

COMMONPLACE, noun. Something that is ordinary.

COMMONPLACE, noun. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.

COMMONPLACE, noun. A commonplace book.

COMMONPLACE, verb. To make a commonplace book.

COMMONPLACE, verb. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.

COMMONPLACE, verb. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

COMMONPLACE BOOK, noun. A personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations etc were written.

COMMONPLACE BOOKS, noun. Plural of commonplace book

COMMONPLACE, noun. A trite or obvious remark.

COMMONPLACE, adjective. Completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities".

COMMONPLACE, adjective. Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines".

COMMONPLACE, adjective. 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'".