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Main Entry: commonplace
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: usual, everyday

Synonyms:

boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middle-of-the-road, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out

Antonyms:

exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual
Main Entry: commonplace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clichéd saying or idea

Synonyms:

banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché, corn, inanity, motto, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, rubber stamp, shallowness, shibboleth, stereotype, tag, triteness, triviality truism
Main Entry: average
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: normal, typical

Synonyms:

boilerplate, common, commonplace, customary, dime a dozen, everyday, fair, fair to middling, familiar, garden*, garden-variety, general, humdrum*, intermediate, mainstream, mediocre, medium, middle of the road, middling, moderate, nowhere, ordinary, passable, plastic, regular, run of the mill, so-so, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual

Antonyms:

abnormal, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, outstanding, unusual
Main Entry: boring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uninteresting

Synonyms:

arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero*

Antonyms:

exciting, fascinating, interesting
Main Entry: cheap
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inferior, low in quality

Synonyms:

bad, base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy*, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, poor, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless
Notes: cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp

Antonyms:

excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy
Main Entry: cliché
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overused, hackneyed phrase

Synonyms:

adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, motto, old story, platitude, potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stale saying, stereotype, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapid expression

Antonyms:

coinage, nuance
Main Entry: common
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: average, ordinary

Synonyms:

accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out

Antonyms:

abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: common, normal

Synonyms:

accepted, accustomed, button-down, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, in established usage, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, tralatitious, typical, usual, well-known, wonted

Antonyms:

abnormal, exotic, foreign, irregular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unoriginal

Synonyms:

bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight

Antonyms:

different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique
Main Entry: corny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trite, clichéd

Synonyms:

banal, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, melodramatic, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stupid, tired, warmed-over

Antonyms:

new, original, unique
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