COMMONPLACE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
commonplace
A trite or obvious remark.
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
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- An unglamorous job greasing engines.
Obvious and dull.
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- Trivial conversation.
- Commonplace prose.
Completely ordinary and unremarkable.
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- Air travel has now become commonplace.
- Commonplace everyday activities.
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
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- Bromidic sermons.
- His remarks were trite and commonplace.
- Hackneyed phrases.
- A stock answer.
- Repeating threadbare jokes.
- Parroting some timeworn axiom.
- The trite metaphor 'hard as nails'.
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