Word Meanings - COMMONPLACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMONPLACE)

• Dull
• Stupid
• stolid
• doltish
• insensible
• callous
• heavy
• gloomy
• dismal
• cloudy
• turbid
• opaque
• dowdy
• sluggish
• sad
• tiresome
• commonplace
• dead
• Mediocrity
• Mean
• medium
• average
• sufficiency
• Platitude
• Commonplace
• generality
• truism
• triviality
• Trite
• Worn
• hackneyed
• stale
• threadbare
• obvious
• familiar
• trivial
• Truism
• platitude

Related words: (words related to COMMONPLACE)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• STALELY
  1. In a state stale manner. 2. Of old; long since. B. Jonson.
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• TURBIDITY
  Turbidness.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• TRUISM
  An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.
• AVERAGE
  That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
• OPAQUE
  1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• DISMAL
  dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
• OBVIOUS
  1. Opposing; fronting. To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. "Obvious to dispute." Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident;
• TRIVIALNESS
  Quality or state of being trivial.
• DOWDYISH
  Like a dowdy.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• HACKNEYMAN
  A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• TURBID
  1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine. On that strong, turbid water, a small boat, Guided by one weak hand, was seen to float. Whittier.
• STOLID
  Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
• ATTRITE
  Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite. (more info) 1. Rubbed; worn by friction. Milton.
• SEMIOPAQUE
  Half opaque; only half transparent.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• RAKESTALE
  The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.
• HYPONITRITE
  A salt of hyponitrous acid.