| 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
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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