Found 3 items, similar to Commonplace.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: commonplace lumrah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: commonplace commonplace n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, bromide] 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, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Commonplace Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. --Felton. [1913 Webster] Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. [1913 Webster] Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. [1913 Webster] 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. [1913 Webster] Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. [1913 Webster]