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commonplace
English
Etymology
A calque of Latin locus comm?nis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ?????? ????? (koinòs tópos).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?m?n?ple?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?m?n?ple?s/
- Hyphenation: com?mon?place
Adjective
commonplace (comparative more commonplace, superlative most commonplace)
- Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
- Synonyms: routine, undistinguished, unexceptional; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed
- Antonyms: distinguished, inimitable, unique
Translations
Noun
commonplace (plural commonplaces)
- A platitude or cliché.
- Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
- A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
- 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
- Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place.
- 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
- A commonplace book.
Translations
Verb
commonplace (third-person singular simple present commonplaces, present participle commonplacing, simple past and past participle commonplaced)
- To make a commonplace book.
- To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
- 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
- I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […] historians.
- 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
- (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Related terms
- commonplace book
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unimportant
English
Etymology
un- +? important
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n?m?p??t?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n?m?p??t?nt/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /??n?m?po(?)?t?nt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /??n?m?po?.t?nt/
Adjective
unimportant (comparative more unimportant, superlative most unimportant)
- petty; not important or noteworthy
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insignificant
- Antonym: important
Derived terms
- unimportantly
Related terms
- unimportance
Translations
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