Commonplace

Com´mon`place`

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

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.

v. t.

To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.

v. i.

To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Noun	1.	commonplace - a trite or obvious remark Synonyms: banality, cliche, platitude, bromide
Adj.	1.	commonplace - obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" Synonyms: banal, trivial
	2.	commonplace - completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
	3.	commonplace - not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" Synonyms: humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous, prosaic
	4.	commonplace - 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'" Synonyms: stock, threadbare, timeworn, hackneyed, old-hat, trite, well-worn, shopworn, tired, banal

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