commonplace
commonplace is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.
- 4.To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abbreviate
- abbreviation
- abbreviature
- abridge
- abridgment
- abstract
- adage
- admitted
- album
- all
- analecta
- analectic
- analysis
- and
- another
- anthology
- apercu
- aphorism
- aphoristic
- apophthegm
- apothegm
- assumption
- average
- axiom
- axiomatic
- balance
- belief
- blanket
- book
- boring
- brief
- byword
- call
- caught
- chaste
- cold
- collect
- collectanea
- come
- common
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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