Commonplace
WordNet
adjective
(1) Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
"An unglamorous job greasing engines"
(2) Completely ordinary and unremarkable
"Air travel has now become commonplace"
"Commonplace everyday activities"
(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'"
noun
(4) A trite or obvious remark
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Etymology
A calque of , referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself is a calque of .