Commonplace

  • 21commonplace — 1. adjective ordinary; having no remarkable features The furniture in the house was commonplace, nice but boring and mundane. 2. noun a) A platitude or cliché …

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  • 22commonplace — adj. VERBS ▪ be, seem ▪ become ▪ regard sth as ▪ Such actions were regarded as commonplace during the war. ADVERB …

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  • 23commonplace — I UK [ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs] / US [ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs] adjective not unusual It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home. II UK [ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs] / US [ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs] noun [countable] Word forms commonplace : singular commonplace plural… …

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  • 24commonplace — adj. & n. adj. lacking originality; trite. n. 1 a an everyday saying; a platitude (uttered a commonplace about the weather). b an ordinary topic of conversation. 2 anything usual or trite. 3 a notable passage in a book etc. copied into a… …

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  • 25commonplace — com|mon|place1 [ kamən,pleıs ] adjective not unusual: It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home. commonplace com|mon|place 2 [ kamən,pleıs ] noun count FORMAL 1. ) something that often happens or is often done and is therefore… …

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  • 26commonplace — /ˈkɒmənpleɪs / (say komuhnplays) adjective 1. ordinary; uninteresting; without individuality: a commonplace person. 2. trite; hackneyed: a commonplace remark. –noun 3. a well known, customary, or obvious remark; a trite or uninteresting saying. 4 …

  • 27commonplace — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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  • 28commonplace — adjective not unusual; ordinary. ↘not interesting or original; trite. noun 1》 a usual or ordinary thing.     ↘a trite saying or topic. 2》 a passage copied into a commonplace book. Derivatives commonplaceness noun Origin C16: translation of L.… …

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  • 29commonplace — [ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs] adj completely normal It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home.[/ex] …

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  • 30Commonplace (album) — Commonplace Studio album by Every Little Thing Released March 10, 2004 …

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