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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
commonplace
a trite or obvious remark (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
platitude, cliche, banality, bromide
• Derivationally related forms:
banal (for: banality), platitudinous (for: platitude)
• Hypernyms:
remark, comment, input, truism
1. completely ordinary and unremarkable (Freq. 1)
- air travel has now become commonplace
- commonplace everyday activities
• Similar to:
ordinary
• Derivationally related forms:
commonplaceness
2. not challenging;
dull and lacking excitement (Freq. 1)
- an unglamorous job greasing engines
• Syn:
humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous
• Similar to:
unexciting
• Derivationally related forms:
prose (for: prosaic), prosaicness (for: prosaic)
3. 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'
• Syn:
banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock,
threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
• Similar to:
unoriginal
• Derivationally related forms:
triteness (for: trite), banality (for: banal)
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