Antonyms for commonplace
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : kom-uhn-pleys |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒm ənˌpleɪs |
Definition of commonplace
Origin :- 1540s, "a statement generally accepted," literal translation of Latin locus communis, from Greek koinos topos "general topic." See common (adj.) + place (n.). The adjectival sense of "having nothing original" dates from c.1600.
- adj usual, everyday
- noun clichéd saying or idea
- It is a curious question why sacred song should so often be dull and commonplace.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- The "missing fourth side" of the room is a commonplace recognized by all.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- You will not tire of it as you will of that which has but a commonplace form or pattern.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 » by Various
- Nature is as plain as one of her pigs, as commonplace, as comic, and as healthy.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- But try as I might, I could only devise something so commonplace that I let the clay spoil.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- But has he not treated it so that it is not commonplace in the least?
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- The more "commonplace" these facts the better they seemed to like them.
- Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
- He looked at her, and thought how commonplace other young women were when compared with her.
- Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
- Thinking there's nothing left in the universe but the commonplace.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
- Matter so commonplace needs but a passing glance, and there an end.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
Synonyms for commonplace
- banality
- boiler plate
- bromide
- characterless
- chestnut
- cliché
- clichéd
- colorless
- conventional
- corn
- corny
- customary
- dime-a-dozen
- familiar
- familiar tune
- garden variety
- hackneyed
- humdrum
- inanity
- lowly
- mainstream
- matter-of-course
- mediocre
- middle-of-the-road
- middling
- motto
- mundane
- natural
- normal
- obvious
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitude
- plebeian
- prevalent
- prosaic
- prosaicism
- prosaism
- prose
- rubber stamp
- run-of-the-mill
- shallowness
- shibboleth
- stale
- starch
- stereotype
- stereotyped
- tag
- threadbare
- trite
- triteness
- triviality truism
- typical
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninteresting
- unnoteworthy
- vanilla
- widespread
- workaday
- worn-out
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