Definition of Commonplace

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Commonplace

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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Commonplace Quotations

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
George Carlin

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Marc Jacobs

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.
John Ruskin

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Samuel Butler

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Commonplace Translations

commonplace in Afrikaans is alledaags
commonplace in Dutch is banaal, alledaags, afgezaagd
commonplace in German is Gemeinplatz
commonplace in Italian is luogo comune
commonplace in Spanish is trivialidad
commonplace in Swedish is vardaglig, trivial, alldaglig

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