| ADJECTIVE | all | commonplace | completely ordinary and unremarkable |
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| all | commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous | not challenging / challenging | |
| all | commonplace, banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn | repeated / repeated too often | |
| NOUN | communication | commonplace, platitude, cliche, banality, bromide | a trite or obvious remark |
| Sounds | kaa'mahnpley.s | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ace / ACE ... workplace: 67 rhymes with eys... | |
| Meaning | Completely ordinary and unremarkable. | |
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| Broader | ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree |
| Nouns | commonplaceness | ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace |
| Meaning | not challenging / challenging; dull and lacking excitement. | |
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| Synonyms | humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous | |
| Broader | unexciting | not exciting |
| Spanish | aburrido, ordinario, vulgar | |
| Meaning | repeated / repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. | |
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| Example | "his remarks were trite and commonplace" | |
| Synonyms | banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn | |
| Broader | unoriginal | not original |
| Spanish | banal, gastado, manida, manido, sabida, sobada, sobado, trillada, trillado, trivial | |
| Catalan | banal | |
| Nouns | commonplace | a trite or obvious remark |
| Meaning | A trite or obvious remark. | |
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| Synonyms | platitude, cliche, banality, bromide | |
| Broader | remark, comment, input | A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information |
| truism | An obvious truth | |
| Spanish | banalidad, cliché, fruslería, futilidad, lugar común, nimiedad, perogrullada, tópico, trivialidad | |
| Catalan | banalitat, fotesa, futilesa, futilitat, nimietat, tòpic, trivialitat | |
| Adjectives | commonplace | repeated / repeated too often |
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