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commonplaces
adjective
(com-mon-place)
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
Synonyms:
humdrum
,
prosaic
,
unglamorous
,
unglamourous
,
commonplaces
noun
(com-mon-place)
a trite or obvious remark
Synonyms:
banality
,
bromide
,
cliche
,
platitude
,
commonplaces
adjective
(com-mon-place)
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Synonyms:
banal
,
hackneyed
, old-hat,
shopworn
,
stock
,
threadbare
,
timeworn
,
tired
,
trite
, well-worn,
Examples:
His remarks were trite and commonplace.
commonplaces
adjective
(com-mon-place)
completely ordinary and unremarkable
Examples:
Air travel has now become commonplace.
Commonplace everyday activities.
Words Related to
commonplaces
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banal
,
trivial
,
humdrum
,
trite
,
cliche
,
prosaic
,
banality
,
hackneyed
,
unglamorous
,
shopworn
,
ordinary
,
threadbare
,
timeworn
,
unexciting
,
tired
,
unoriginal
,
platitude
,
unglamourous
,
stock
,
bromide
,
well-worn
,
platitudes
,
topics
,
clichés
,
attitudinizing
,
auteurism
,
tautologies
,
wishfulness
,
orientalism
,
existentialists
,
nabokovian
,
archaisms
,
deracination
,
everydayness
,
koans
,
apercus
,
crudities
,
essentialism
,
dialectics
,
quiddity
,
historicism
,
determinist
,
postmodernist
,
poesy
,
reification
,
journalese
,
pompousness
,
metafiction
,
gallimaufry
,
syllogisms
,
bohemianism
,
barbarisms
,
sarcasms
,
doubleness
,
ephemerality
,
hyperboles
,
intertextuality
,
indirectness
,
emersonian
,
objective correlative
,
millenarianism
,
instrumentalism
,
factuality
,
literalism
,
impersonality
,
insubstantiality
,
vulgarization
,
dialectical materialism
,
deconstructionist
,
romanticisation
,
cacophonies
,
metonym
,
sophistic
,
stylisation
,
functionalist
,
dilettantism
,
explications
,
incommensurability
,
materialists
,
lunacies
,
rawly
,
dandyism
,
hybridity
,
hemingwayesque
,
catharses
,
tendentiousness
,
polemics
,
onanism
,
weltanschauung
,
alterity
,
sermonic
,
pietism
,
shavian
,
abjection
,
exegeses
,
referents
,
dualist
,
etymologies
,
ambiguousness
,
theorization
,
commonplaces
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