Associations to the word «Commonplace»
Noun
- Peculiarity
- Erasmus
- Rogue
- Greeting
- Comparison
- Thing
- Rousseau
- Lifetime
- Genre
- Book
- Fashion
- Interchange
- Mind
- Talk
- Censorship
- Ambition
- Antiquity
- Escape
- Philosophy
- Knowledge
- Sherlock
- Abstraction
- Bravery
- Manner
- Thrill
- Altogether
- Observer
- Instance
- Intercourse
- Bore
- Truth
- Regard
- Networking
- Furniture
- Excitement
- Something
- Temper
- Practice
- Theme
- Theft
- Sense
- Curiosity
- Sort
- Phenomenon
- Fact
- Feeling
- Excellence
- Inspiration
- Dinner
- Narrow
- Author
- Crise
- Innovation
Adjective
Wiktionary
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
Dictionary definition
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'".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.