Something commonplace is ordinary. It can also be something dull and unchallenging or tired and clichéd. Coffee shops in cities are commonplace, so are berets in Paris. You see them all over the place.
Common; ordinary; trite;
Noun
a trite or obvious remark
Adjective S.
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
Adjective S.
obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
Adjective S.
completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
Adjective S.
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''"
a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
n.
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest;
a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
n.
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
referred to.
v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to
general heads.
v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Commonplace
Commonplace
Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.
Commonplace
Commonplace
Common; ordinary; trite;
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Usage Examples
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
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Other Usage ExamplesLittle minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.
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