noun
adjective
- Completely ordinary and unremarkable.
- usage: "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
- Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
- usage: "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
- synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous
- Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
- usage: "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'"
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