commonplaceとは

形容詞

commonplace (comparative more commonplace, superlative most commonplace)

1. Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
   • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 7, in St. Ronan's Well:

     "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

   • 1911, Under Western Eyes:

     I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.

同意語

• routine
• undistinguished
• unexceptional
• See also Thesaurus:hackneyed

反意語

• distinguished
• inimitable
• unique

名詞

commonplace (複数形 commonplaces)

1. A platitude or cliché.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 17, in Active Service:

     Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.

   • 1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:

     And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

2. Something that is ordinary.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:

     "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence."

3. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
   • Jonathan Swift

     Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.

4. A commonplace book.

動詞

commonplace (三人称単数 現在形 commonplaces, 現在分詞 commonplacing, 過去形および過去分詞形 commonplaced)

1. To make a commonplace book.
2. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
   • Felton

     I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the historians.

3. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
   • 1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:

     And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

関連する語

• commonplace book