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commonplace::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
commonplace::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | commonplaceness |
air travel has now become commonplace.
commonplace everyday activities.
Examples of commonplace
commonplace
Months ago, despair at the prospect of change in the Arab world was commonplace.
From the sacbee.com
Mobiles are commonplace in secondary schools, but can they be used for teaching?
From the guardian.co.uk
No-holds-barred fights for dominance are commonplace in the world of whitetails.
From the kentucky.com
Pollution-preventing cover crops have become commonplace when fields are fallow.
From the washingtonpost.com
For the city cop on the ghetto beat, constant tension has long been commonplace.
From the time.com
Setting U.S. profit records has become commonplace for Irving-based Exxon Mobil.
From the denverpost.com
As the testing becomes more commonplace, families sometimes learn painful facts.
From the latimes.com
This causes both grace and sin to become something unimpressive and commonplace.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
With the proliferation of smart phones, such recordings have become commonplace.
From the heraldtribune.com
- Completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
- Platitude: a trite or obvious remark
- Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
- Banal: 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'"
- Commonplace (stylised as commonplace) is the sixth album of the Japanese band Every Little Thing, released on March 10, 2004. Two versions have been released, one with the music CD only, and the other with a DVD.
- (Commonplacing) Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They became significant in Early Modern Europe.
- Very normal, related to normal, everyday things
