Category:Commonplace

Com"mon*place`, a.

Defn: Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

commonplace Com"mon*place`, n.

1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

commonplace Com"mon*place`, v. t.

Defn: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

commonplace Com"mon*place`, v. i.

Defn: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] Bacon.