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commonplace
Synonyms and Antonyms of commonplace
- a commonplace occurrence
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
- the large corporate mergers that have become commonplace
common, common or garden [chiefly British], everyday, familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usual
- a thriller that uses the commonplace plot twist of the evil twin
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
- the familiar summertime commonplace that "It's not the heat, it's the humidity"
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