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Exact Match:

commonplace

not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"

Synonyms:

• Attic,
• Babbittish,
• Philistine,
• Spartan,
• abstraction,
• accustomed,
• ascetic,
• austere,
• average,
• back-number,
• bald,
• banal,
• banality,
• bare,
• baseborn,
• below the salt,
• bewhiskered,
• bourgeois,
• bromide,
• bromidic,
• campy,
• candid,
• chaste,
• chestnut,
• classic,
• classical,
• cliche,
• cliched,
• cockney,
• common,
• commonly known,
• commonplace expression,
• conventional,
• corn,
• corny,
• current,
• customary,
• cut-and-dried,
• direct,
• dry,
• dull,
• everyday,
• fade,
• familiar,
• familiar tune,
• flat,
• frank,
• fusty,
• garden,
• garden-variety,
• general,
• general idea,
• generalization,
• generalized proposition,
• glittering generality,
• habitual,
• hackney,
• hackneyed,
• hackneyed expression,
• hackneyed saying,
• high-camp,
• homely,
• homespun,
• household,
• humble,
• humdrum,
• inanity,
• insipid,
• kitschy,
• lean,
• lieu commun,
• locus communis,
• low,
• low-camp,
• lowborn,
• lowbred,
• lowly,
• matter-of-fact,
• mean,
• middle-class,
• moth-eaten,
• mundane,
• musty,
• natural,
• neat,
• no great shakes,
• nonclerical,
• nondescript,
• normal,
• normative,
• notorious,
• old hat,
• old joke,
• old saw,
• old song,
• old story,
• open,
• ordinary,
• overworked,
• pedestrian,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• plastic,
• platitude,
• platitudinous,
• plebeian,
• poetryless,
• pop,
• popular,
• predominating,
• prescriptive,
• prevailing,
• prevalent,
• prosaic,
• prosaicism,
• prosaism,
• prose,
• prosing,
• prosy,
• proverbial,
• public,
• pure,
• pure and simple,
• regular,
• regulation,
• reiteration,
• retold story,
• rubber stamp,
• rude,
• run-of-mine,
• run-of-the-mill,
• rustic,
• set,
• severe,
• shabby-genteel,
• shallowness,
• shibboleth,
• shopworn,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• sober,
• spare,
• square,
• stale,
• standard,
• stark,
• stereotype,
• stereotyped,
• stereotyped saying,
• stock,
• straightforward,
• suburban,
• sweeping statement,
• tag,
• talked-about,
• talked-of,
• third-estate,
• threadbare,
• timeworn,
• tired,
• tired cliche,
• tiresome,
• trite,
• trite saying,
• triteness,
• triticism,
• truism,
• truistic,
• twice-told tale,
• typical,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• unembellished,
• uneventful,
• unexceptional,
• ungenteel,
• unidealistic,
• unimaginative,
• unimpassioned,
• universal,
• universally admitted,
• universally recognized,
• unnoteworthy,
• unoriginal,
• unpoetic,
• unpoetical,
• unremarkable,
• unromantic,
• unspectacular,
• unvarnished,
• usual,
• vapid,
• vernacular,
• vulgar,
• warmed-over,
• well-kenned,
• well-known,
• well-recognized,
• well-understood,
• well-worn,
• widely known,
• wishy-washiness,
• wonted,
• workaday,
• workday,
• worn,
• worn thin,
• worn-out