commonplace
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a trite or obvious remark
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
completely ordinary and unremarkable
air travel has now become commonplace
Related & opposite
- commonplaceness derivation
- ordinary similar to
Sense 3 adjective
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
an unglamorous job greasing engines
Related & opposite
- prosiness derivation
- prose derivation
- unexciting similar to
Sense 4 adjective
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
bromidic sermons
Related & opposite
- staleness derivation
- platitude derivation
- unoriginal similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | banal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | corny |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | remark |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | truism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | commonplaceness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | ordinary |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | prosiness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | prose |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | unexciting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | staleness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | platitude |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | unoriginal |