Synonyms: cliche, commonplace, bromide, platitude, banality
Definition: a trite or obvious remark
Similar words: input, remark, comment
Definition: a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information
Usage: from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account
Similar words: truism
Definition: an obvious truth
Synonyms: unglamorous, unglamourous, commonplace, prosaic, humdrum
Definition: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
Usage: an unglamorous job greasing engines
Similar words: unexciting
Definition: not exciting
Usage: an unexciting novel; lived an unexciting life
Synonyms: commonplace
Definition: completely ordinary and unremarkable
Usage: air travel has now become commonplace; commonplace everyday activities
Similar words: ordinary
Definition: not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
Usage: ordinary everyday objects; ordinary decency; an ordinary day; an ordinary wine
Synonyms: 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'
Similar words: unoriginal
Definition: not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
Usage: the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations; his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern- Gwethalyn Graham