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Commonplace

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

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Ordinary 84% connected

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

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Ordinary 84% connected

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

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Broader term 3

Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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Remark 76% connected

To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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Truism 76% connected

An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

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Commonplaceness 74% connected

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

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Commonplaceness 74% connected

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

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Banal 92% connected

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

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Banality 92% connected

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

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Bromide 92% connected

A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

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Cliche 92% connected

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.

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Hackneyed 92% connected

of Hackney

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Humdrum 92% connected

Monotonous; dull; commonplace.

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Platitude 92% connected

The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.

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Prosaic 92% connected

Alt. of Prosaical

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Shopworn 92% connected

Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

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Stock 92% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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Threadbare 92% connected

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.

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Tired 92% connected

of Tire

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Trite 92% connected

Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.

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