English-Thai Dictionary

commonplace

ADJ ที่ เกิดขึ้น ทุกวัน  usual common ti-koed-kuen-tuk-wan

 

commonplace

ADJ น่าเบื่อ  dull na-buea

 

commonplace

N สิ่ง ที่ เห็น ได้ บ่อยๆ  สิ่ง ที่ เห็น ได้ ทั่วไป  sing-ti-hen-dai-boi-boi

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMMONPLACE

n.A memorandum; a common topic.

 

COMMONPLACE

v.t.To enter in a commonplace-book, or to reduce to general heads. Commonplace-book, a book in which are registered such facts, opinions or observations as are deemed worthy of notice or remembrance, so disposed that any one may be easily found. Hence common-place as used as an epithet to denote what is common or often repeated, or trite; as a commonplace observation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, a.

 

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

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, n.

 

1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

 

2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, v. t.

 

Defn: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

 

COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE Com "mon *place `, v. i.

 

Defn: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs. ] Bacon.

 

COMMONPLACENESS

COMMONPLACENESS Com "mon *place `ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

commonplace

com mon place |ˈkämənˌplās ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs | ▶adjective not unusual; ordinary: unemployment was commonplace in his profession. • not interesting or original; trite: the usual commonplace remarks. ▶noun 1 a usual or ordinary thing: bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there. • a trite saying or topic; a platitude: it is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated. 2 a notable quotation copied into a commonplace book. DERIVATIVES com mon place ness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (originally common place ): translation of Latin locus communis, rendering Greek koinos topos ‘general theme. ’

 

commonplace book

com mon place book |ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs ˌbʊk | ▶noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use.

 

Oxford Dictionary

commonplace

com ¦mon |place |ˈkɒmənpleɪs | ▶adjective not unusual; ordinary: unemployment was commonplace in his trade. • not interesting or original; trite: the usual commonplace remarks. ▶noun 1 a usual or ordinary thing: bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there. • a trite saying or topic; a platitude: it is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated. 2 a notable passage in a work copied into a commonplace book. DERIVATIVES commonplaceness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (originally common place ): translation of Latin locus communis, rendering Greek koinos topos ‘general theme ’.

 

commonplace book

com ¦mon |place book ▶noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

commonplace

commonplace adjective 1 a commonplace writing style: ordinary, run-of-the-mill, unremarkable, unexceptional, average, mediocre, pedestrian, prosaic, lackluster, dull, bland, uninteresting, mundane; hackneyed, trite, banal, clichéd, predictable, stale, tired, unoriginal; informal by-the-numbers, boilerplate, plain-vanilla, dime a dozen, bush-league. ANTONYMS original, outstanding. 2 a commonplace occurrence: common, normal, usual, ordinary, familiar, routine, standard, everyday, daily, regular, frequent, habitual, typical. ANTONYMS unusual. ▶noun 1 early death was a commonplace: everyday event, routine. 2 a great store of commonplaces: platitude, cliché, truism, hackneyed phrase, trite phrase, old chestnut, banality; dated bromide.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

commonplace

commonplace adjective 1 he had a tame and commonplace style of writing: ordinary, run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road, mainstream, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, uninspired, unexciting, unmemorable, forgettable, indifferent, average, so-so, mediocre, pedestrian, prosaic, lacklustre, dull, bland, uninteresting, mundane, everyday, quotidian, humdrum, hackneyed, trite, banal, clichéd, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, unoriginal, derivative; Brit. common or garden; N. Amer. garden variety; informal nothing to write home about, nothing to get excited about, no great shakes, not so hot, not up to much, vanilla, plain vanilla, bog-standard, a dime a dozen, old hat, corny, played out; Brit. informal not much cop, ten a penny; N. Amer. informal ornery, bush-league, cornball, dime-store; Austral. /NZ informal half-pie. ANTONYMS outstanding; original. 2 business trips abroad are now commonplace occurrences: common, normal, usual, ordinary, familiar, routine, standard, everyday, day-to-day, daily, regular, frequent, habitual, conventional, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable. ANTONYMS unusual. ▶noun 1 early death was a commonplace in those days: everyday thing /event; routine, nothing out of the ordinary. 2 he had a great store of commonplaces which he adapted to any subject: platitude, cliché, truism, hackneyed /trite /banal /overworked saying, stock phrase, old chestnut, banality, bromide.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

commonplace

com mon place /kɑ́mənplèɪs |kɔ́m -/〖原義は 名詞 2 ; 形容詞 の用法は17世紀から 〗形容詞 more ～; most ～1 〖通例be ～〗ごく普通の , よくある [見られる ], ありふれた ▸ Cell phones have become commonplace .携帯電話は普通のものになった 2 〈言葉 表現などが 〉ありきたりの , 陳腐な .名詞 C ｟かたく ｠1 〖通例a ～〗ごく普通の [よくある ]事 [物 ]▸ Crimes are a commonplace in the neighborhood .その界隈では犯罪は日常茶飯事だ 2 a. 〖通例a ～〗ありきたりの [陳腐な ]発言 [意見 ], 決まり文句 ; (引用の )名言, 名句 .b. 〖the ～〗平凡 [退屈 ] (な事 ).