com·mon·place /ˈkɑmənˌples/
常事,老生常談,普通的東西(a.)平凡的,陳腐的
Com·mon·place a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
Com·mon·place, n.
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.
Com·mon·place, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
Com·mon·place, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
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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]
n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality,
bromide]