COMMONPLACES Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

commonplaces

noun

plural of commonplace

as in clichés

an idea or expression that has been used by many people the familiar summertime commonplace that "It's not the heat, it's the humidity"

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Noun

The show’s first trailer, which debuted during DC Studios’ Hall H panel, illustrated its commitment to using traditional cop show tropes on a comic book property.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Some say the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism can blur when opposition to Israeli policies veers into prejudice against Jewish people, in some cases tapping age-old anti-Jewish tropes about money and power.

— Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026

Definition of tropes

Noun

And yet for God’s sake, just look at the man—at his dispiriting attempts at humor, his weirdly off-putting outfits, his incessant posting of banalities and faux profundities and extreme-right disinformation on social media.

— Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
Here, Laura, a magazine writer in London, drifts through old friendships, failed romances, and the gothic banalities of family life.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 20 June 2026

Definition of banalities

Noun

Spain’s success over the past five years has undermined many long-standing political-economic truisms.

— Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
The play isn’t subtle; the final sequence leans hard on truisms about addiction and trauma, which are affecting but overly explicit.

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of truisms

Noun

The shorter run time also means some themes get reduced into syrup; the platitudes come as fast and furious as Tao and Elle’s breakups and makeups, with too little space to breathe in between.

— Gemma Wilson, Boston Herald, 19 July 2026
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, some of America’s most visible business leaders are doing more than offering patriotic platitudes.

— Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of platitudes

Noun

The next three chapters offer an anthology of sayings from rabbis who were active in the early centuries of the Common Era, including Hillel and Johanan ben Zakkai, among many other tannaim.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Where the most hopelessly corny sayings are painstakingly stitched into the equivalent of cloth graph paper by women who believe in the sayings and give the plaques to people who do not believe in the sayings.

— Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

Definition of sayings

Noun

The president used similar bromides in private calls to assuage allies, including Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, before launching the war in February, according to people familiar with the conversations.

— Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
While these songs might appear to be somewhat straightforward EBM that wear their politics on their latex sleeve, there’s a level of ambiguity at work that moves Kissing Luck Goodbye past its own bromides and into deeper artistic territory.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026

Definition of bromides

Noun

The third film in director Éric Rohmer’s series Comedies and Proverbs, Pauline at the Beach explores the emotions (and delusions) around summer love.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 20 June 2026
For nine months, Erasmus spent his short nights in a modest dorm and his long days in the print shop, expanding on his collection of proverbs Adagiorum chiliades while Aldus proofread, craftsman carefully laying sets of print and rolling paper through the press.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025

Definition of proverbs

Noun

There are also some surviving large American chestnuts, some of which have heritable blight resistance.

— Steve Strauss, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
Mature trees donate an encyclopedia of species, including the regional pines and chestnuts planted on instruction of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the 1700s.

— Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of chestnuts

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