Main entry: cliche, commonplace, bromide, platitude, banality
Definition: a trite or obvious remark
Main entry: unglamorous, unglamourous, commonplace, prosaic, humdrum
Definition: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
Usage: an unglamorous job greasing engines
Main entry: commonplace
Definition: completely ordinary and unremarkable
Usage: air travel has now become commonplace; commonplace everyday activities
Main entry: trite, timeworn, tired, stock, threadbare, old-hat, hackneyed, commonplace, banal, shopworn, well-worn
Definition: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Usage: 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'