commonplace

adj. ordinary, everyday, uninteresting

n. something common or normal, something ordinary or routine

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) emerged in the 15th century with the availability of cheap paper for writing, mainly in England. They were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.
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Noun
1. a trite or obvious remark
(synonym) platitude, cliche, banality, bromide
(hypernym) remark, comment
Adjective
1. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
(synonym) banal, trivial
(similar) ordinary
2. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
(similar) ordinary
3. not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
(synonym) humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous
(similar) unexciting
4. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
(synonym) banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
(similar) unoriginal

(v. t.)
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
  

(v. i.)
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
  

(n.)
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
  

(n.)
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
  

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

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