commonplace
معنی فارسی
پيش پا افتاده معمولي همه جايي مبتذل
معنی کامل و مثالها
/-plās´/n., adj
● عادی، معمولی، بسیار یاب
jet travel is now a commonplace
سفر با (هواپیمای) جت این روزها عادی است.
● کهنه مبتذل، پیش پا افتاده، حرف تکراری، چیز واضح (که گفتنش بیجا است)، پر واضح
it is a commonplace that honey is sweet
پر واضح است که عسل شیرین است.
● (در اصل) قطعهای که در دفترچهی کلمات قصار (commonplace book) ذکر شده است
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Middle English 'comunplas', from Old French 'comun place' (common place).
مثال
- The idea that money can't buy happiness has become a commonplace.
- The phrase 'thank you' is a commonplace in polite conversation.
- The novel is filled with commonplaces about love and loss.
ترکیبهای رایج
Commonplace idea Commonplace phrase Commonplace occurrence Commonplace view
تعریف انگلیسی
- completely ordinary and unremarkable “air travel has now become commonplace” “commonplace everyday activities”
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement “an unglamorous job greasing engines”
- 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”
مترادفها
adjective
Trite, stale, hackneyed, ordinary, common, threadbare, not new, worn out.