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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. --Felton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a. Common; ordinary; trite; as a commonplace person, or observation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. --Swift. {Commonplace book}, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: commonplace adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" [syn: {banal}, {trivial}] 2: completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" 3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: {humdrum}, {prosaic}, {unglamorous}, {unglamourous}] 4: 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'" [syn: {banal}, {hackneyed}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}] n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {banality}, {bromide}]
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