commonplace
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- everyday, banal, common, humdrum, mundane, obvious, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, widespread
[noun]
Synonyms:
- cliché, banality, platitude, truism

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Antonyms: profundity
Related Idioms: a dime a dozen, as everyday as breakfast
Related Words: chestnut, corn, prose, stereotype, inanity, shallowness, wishy-washiness, threadbareness, triteness

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English Thesaurus: common, widespread, commonplace, prevalent, rife, ...

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I. com‧mon‧place¹ /ˈkɒmənpleɪs $ ˈkɑː-/ adjective
happening or existing in many places, and therefore not special or unusual:
Car thefts are commonplace in this part of town.

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II. commonplace² noun [countable usually singular]

1. something that happens or exists in many places, so that it is not unusual:
Women’s groups have become a commonplace.

2. something that has been said so often that it is no longer interesting or original

3. the commonplace something that is ordinary or boring Synonym : the everyday

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commonplace
adj.
VERBS be, seem | become | regard sth as Such actions were regarded as commonplace during the war.
ADV. very | almost | enough, fairly, quite, rather Her situation sounded commonplace enough.
PREP. among/amongst These ideas are commonplace among teenagers.

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common if something is common, there are a lot of them:
Jones is a very common name in Great Britain.
Foxes are common in the area.
Personal computers are nearly as common in American homes as televisions.
widespread happening in a lot of places or done by a lot of people:
Racism is much more widespread than people imagine.
The report claimed that the problem of police brutality was widespread.
the widespread availability of antibiotics
commonplace [not before noun] especially written common in a particular place or time – used especially when saying that this seems surprising or unusual:
Crimes such as robbery are commonplace in big cities.
Expensive foreign cars are commonplace in this Chicago suburb.
prevalent formal common in a place or among a group of people – used especially about illnesses, problems, or ideas:
Flu is most prevalent during the winter months.
Depression remains one of the most prevalent health disorders in the US.
This belief is more prevalent among men than women.
rife /raɪf/ [not before noun] very common – used about illnesses or problems:
AIDS is rife in some parts of the world.
ubiquitous /juːˈbɪkwətəs, juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/ formal very common and seen in many different places – often used humorously in written descriptions:
He was carrying the ubiquitous MP3 player.
In Britain, CCTV cameras are ubiquitous.
something is everywhere especially spoken used when saying that you can see something a lot in many different places:
Images of the dictator were everywhere.
Microchips seem to be everywhere these days – even in washing machines.
One of the first things you notice in Amsterdam are the bicycles – they’re everywhere.

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