Definition of Commonplace
Commonplace
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
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Commonplace Quotations
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
George Carlin
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges
I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Marc Jacobs
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy
Commonplace Translations
commonplace in Afrikaans is alledaags
commonplace in Dutch is banaal, alledaags, afgezaagd
commonplace in German is Gemeinplatz
commonplace in Italian is luogo comune
commonplace in Spanish is trivialidad
commonplace in Swedish is vardaglig, trivial, alldaglig
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