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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. [ 1913 Webster]
Commonplace \ Com" mon* place`\, n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. [ 1913 Webster] Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] { Commonplace book}, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. [ 1913 Webster]
Commonplace \ Com" mon* place`\, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. -- Felton. [ 1913 Webster]
Commonplace \ Com" mon* place`\, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [ Obs.] -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 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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