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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place'\, verb (used with an object) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. --Felton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place'\, verb (used without an object) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place'\, adjective Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Commonplace \Com"mon*place'\, noun
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
commonplace
adjective
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}, {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
noun: a trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {banality}, {bromide}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
209 Moby Thesaurus words for "commonplace": Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, abstraction, accustomed, ascetic, austere, average, back-number, bald, banal, banality, bare, baseborn, below the salt, bewhiskered, bourgeois, bromide, bromidic, campy, candid, chaste, chestnut, classic, classical, cliche, cliched, cockney, common, commonly known, commonplace expression, conventional, corn, corny, current, customary, cut-and-dried, direct, dry, dull, everyday, fade, familiar, familiar tune, flat, frank, fusty, garden, garden-variety, general, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, habitual, hackney, hackneyed, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, high-camp, homely, homespun, household, humble, humdrum, inanity, insipid, kitschy, lean, lieu commun, locus communis, low, low-camp, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, matter-of-fact, mean, middle-class, moth-eaten, mundane, musty, natural, neat, no great shakes, nonclerical, nondescript, normal, normative, notorious, old hat, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, open, ordinary, overworked, pedestrian, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plastic, platitude, platitudinous, plebeian, poetryless, pop, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, prosaic, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, prosing, prosy, proverbial, public, pure, pure and simple, regular, regulation, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, rude, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, rustic, set, severe, shabby-genteel, shallowness, shibboleth, shopworn, simple, simple-speaking, sober, spare, square, stale, standard, stark, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyped saying, stock, straightforward, suburban, sweeping statement, tag, talked-about, talked-of, third-estate, threadbare, timeworn, tired, tired cliche, tiresome, trite, trite saying, triteness, triticism, truism, truistic, twice-told tale, typical, unadorned, unaffected, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptional, ungenteel, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, universal, universally admitted, universally recognized, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unremarkable, unromantic, unspectacular, unvarnished, usual, vapid, vernacular, vulgar, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, wishy-washiness, wonted, workaday, workday, worn, worn thin, worn-out
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