commonplace
Speech parts
1. commonplace - Noun
2. commonplace - Adjective
3. commonplace - Verb
4. commonplace - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .