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Adjective commonplace has 4 senses
- banal, commonplace, trivial - obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
Antonym: extraordinary (indirect, via ordinary)
- commonplace - completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
Antonym: extraordinary (indirect, via ordinary)
- commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous - not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
Antonym: exciting (indirect, via unexciting)
- banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn - 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'"
Antonym: original (indirect, via unoriginal)
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