Synonyms of the word

commonplace

• adj. Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
• n. A platitude or cliché.
• n. Something that is ordinary.
• n. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
• n. A commonplace book.
• v. To make a commonplace book.
• v. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
• v. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

banal

• adj. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

banality

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being banal.
• n. (countable) Something which is banal.

bromide

• n. (inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
• n. A dose of bromide taken as a sedative.
• n. A dull person with conventional thoughts.
• n. A platitude.

cliche

• n. Alternative form of cliché.
• v. Alternative form of cliché.

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

hackneyed

• adj. Repeated too often.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of hackney.

humdrum

• adj. Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
• n. The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness; monotony.

old-hat

• adj. attributive form of old hat.

ordinary

• adj. (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
• adj. Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
• adj. Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
• n. (obsolete) A devotional manual.
• n. (Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
• n. A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within…
• n. (obsolete) A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.
• n. (archaic or historical) A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
• n. (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a…
• n. An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run.
• n. (historical) A penny-farthing bicycle.

platitude

• n. An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through…
• n. Unoriginality; triteness.
• n. A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

prosaic

• adj. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
• adj. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
• adj. (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace,…

remark

• n. Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
• n. The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something worth attention…
• n. A casual observation, comment, or statement.
• n. (engraving) Alternative form of remarque.
• v. (intransitive) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
• v. (transitive) To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to…
• v. (transitive) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
• v. (transitive) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a…
• n. Alternative spelling of re-mark.
• v. Alternative spelling of re-mark.

shopworn

• adj. Having been used, as a sample item in a retail store.
• adj. (figuratively) Not fresh; tired or cliché.
• adj. Faded.

stock

• n. A store or supply.
• n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
• n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
• n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
• n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• n. A bar, stick or rod.
• n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
• n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
• n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
• n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
• n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
• n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
• n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
• n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
• n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
• n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
• n. The beater of a fulling mill.
• v. To have on hand for sale.
• v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
• v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
• v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
• v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
• v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
• adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
• adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
• adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
• n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

threadbare

• adj. (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show.
• adj. damaged or shabby.
• adj. (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material.
• adj. (of speech) banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed.

timeworn

• adj. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
• adj. Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed.

tired

• v. simple past tense and past participle of tire.
• adj. In need of some rest or sleep.
• adj. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
• adj. Overused, cliché.
• adj. (slang, African American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent.

trite

• adj. Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting…
• n. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
• n. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.

truism

• n. A self-evident or obvious truth.
• n. A banality or cliché.

unexciting

• adj. Not exciting.

unglamorous

• adj. Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.

unglamourous

• adj. Misspelling of unglamorous.

unoriginal

• adj. lacking originality.

well-worn

• adj. showing signs of wear because of extensive use.
• adj. (by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often.