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commonplace
Synonyms and Antonyms of commonplace
1
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
par for the course
curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer
aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical
fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal
bizarre, far-out, Kafkaesque, outrageous, outré, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild
eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox
conspicuous, notable, novel, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented
2
often observed or encountered
common, common or garden [chiefly British], everyday, familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usual
a dime a dozen
3
used or heard so often as to be dull
banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous
canned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginal
normal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usual
arid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearying
commonplace
Synonyms and Antonyms of commonplace
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
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