commonplace 音标拼音: [k'ɑmənpl
, es]
n . 常事,老生常谈,普通的东西
a . 平凡的,陈腐的
常事,老生常谈,普通的东西平凡的,陈腐的
commonplace adj 1 :
completely ordinary and unremarkable ; "
air travel has now become commonplace "; "
commonplace everyday activities "
2 :
not challenging ;
dull and lacking excitement ; "
an unglamorous job greasing engines " [
synonym : {
commonplace }, {
humdrum },
{
prosaic }, {
unglamorous }, {
unglamourous }]
3 :
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 '" [
synonym : {
banal }, {
commonplace }, {
hackneyed },
{
old -
hat }, {
shopworn }, {
stock (
a )}, {
threadbare }, {
timeworn },
{
tired }, {
trite }, {
well -
worn }]
n 1 :
a trite or obvious remark [
synonym : {
platitude }, {
cliche },
{
banality }, {
commonplace }, {
bromide }]
Commonplace \
Com "
mon *
place `\,
a .
Common ;
ordinary ;
trite ;
as ,
a commonplace person ,
or observation .
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Commonplace \
Com "
mon *
place `\,
n .
1 .
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest ;
a trite or customary remark ;
a platitude .
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2 .
A memorandum ;
something to be frequently consulted or referred to .
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Whatever ,
in my reading ,
occurs concerning this our fellow creature ,
I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace . --
Swift .
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{
Commonplace book },
a book in which records are made of things to be remembered .
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Commonplace \
Com "
mon *
place `\,
v .
t .
To enter in a commonplace book ,
or to reduce to general heads . --
Felton .
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Commonplace \
Com "
mon *
place `\,
v .
i .
To utter commonplaces ;
to indulge in platitudes . [
Obs .]
--
Bacon .
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209 Moby Thesaurus words for "
commonplace ":
Attic ,
Babbittish ,
Philistine ,
Spartan ,
abstraction ,
accustomed ,
ascetic ,
austere ,
average ,
back -
number ,
bald ,
banal ,
banality ,
bare ,
baseborn ,
below the salt ,
bewhiskered ,
bourgeois ,
bromide ,
bromidic ,
campy ,
candid ,
chaste ,
chestnut ,
classic ,
classical ,
cliche ,
cliched ,
cockney ,
common ,
commonly known ,
commonplace expression ,
conventional ,
corn ,
corny ,
current ,
customary ,
cut -
and -
dried ,
direct ,
dry ,
dull ,
everyday ,
fade ,
familiar ,
familiar tune ,
flat ,
frank ,
fusty ,
garden ,
garden -
variety ,
general ,
general idea ,
generalization ,
generalized proposition ,
glittering generality ,
habitual ,
hackney ,
hackneyed ,
hackneyed expression ,
hackneyed saying ,
high -
camp ,
homely ,
homespun ,
household ,
humble ,
humdrum ,
inanity ,
insipid ,
kitschy ,
lean ,
lieu commun ,
locus communis ,
low ,
low -
camp ,
lowborn ,
lowbred ,
lowly ,
matter -
of -
fact ,
mean ,
middle -
class ,
moth -
eaten ,
mundane ,
musty ,
natural ,
neat ,
no great shakes ,
nonclerical ,
nondescript ,
normal ,
normative ,
notorious ,
old hat ,
old joke ,
old saw ,
old song ,
old story ,
open ,
ordinary ,
overworked ,
pedestrian ,
plain ,
plain -
speaking ,
plain -
spoken ,
plastic ,
platitude ,
platitudinous ,
plebeian ,
poetryless ,
pop ,
popular ,
predominating ,
prescriptive ,
prevailing ,
prevalent ,
prosaic ,
prosaicism ,
prosaism ,
prose ,
prosing ,
prosy ,
proverbial ,
public ,
pure ,
pure and simple ,
regular ,
regulation ,
reiteration ,
retold story ,
rubber stamp ,
rude ,
run -
of -
mine ,
run -
of -
the -
mill ,
rustic ,
set ,
severe ,
shabby -
genteel ,
shallowness ,
shibboleth ,
shopworn ,
simple ,
simple -
speaking ,
sober ,
spare ,
square ,
stale ,
standard ,
stark ,
stereotype ,
stereotyped ,
stereotyped saying ,
stock ,
straightforward ,
suburban ,
sweeping statement ,
tag ,
talked -
about ,
talked -
of ,
third -
estate ,
threadbare ,
timeworn ,
tired ,
tired cliche ,
tiresome ,
trite ,
trite saying ,
triteness ,
triticism ,
truism ,
truistic ,
twice -
told tale ,
typical ,
unadorned ,
unaffected ,
unembellished ,
uneventful ,
unexceptional ,
ungenteel ,
unidealistic ,
unimaginative ,
unimpassioned ,
universal ,
universally admitted ,
universally recognized ,
unnoteworthy ,
unoriginal ,
unpoetic ,
unpoetical ,
unremarkable ,
unromantic ,
unspectacular ,
unvarnished ,
usual ,
vapid ,
vernacular ,
vulgar ,
warmed -
over ,
well -
kenned ,
well -
known ,
well -
recognized ,
well -
understood ,
well -
worn ,
widely known ,
wishy -
washiness ,
wonted ,
workaday ,
workday ,
worn ,
worn thin ,
worn -
out
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