Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
Lacking wit or imagination.
Синонимы
Examples for "commonplace "
Examples for "commonplace "
1 Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
2 But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3 Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace .
4 But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace .
5 The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
1 This was a humdrum occasion and, at times, a rather sloppy display.
2 England lost three wickets carelessly on the way to a humdrum victory.
3 In her humdrum life the falling away of Mrs. Tufton loomed catastrophic.
4 Their peculiar talents are hidden by the obscurity of humdrum , honest labor.
5 She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
1 But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
2 Production values are thrifty but resourcefully deployed to accentuate the unglamorous environment.
3 For a generally unglamorous and rather functional product, primer elicits much conversation.
4 In other words, it shows the unglamorous side of the jet-lag life.
5 Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.
1 The film star was dressed for bed in a very unglamourous , extra-large man's T-shirt.
2 At the stage door there were no crowds of groupies or fans - just forty unglamourous people waiting for backstage passes.
3 Some might say that Portadown were stuck in limbo last season, sucked into the unglamourous atmosphere of All-Ireland League Division Three.
Not fanciful or imaginative.
1 I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
2 In truth, the world of persuasion is a good deal more prosaic .
3 In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
4 Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
5 But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
6 Terse, strong, prosaic - the very genius of the race was in the cry.
7 It seemed such a prosaic way of growing such a luscious fruit.
8 That sounded so prosaic ; but to my surprise I found it true.
9 Nickleville is the prosaic name of that little hamlet in western Pennsylvania.
10 But this is only the practical and prosaic side of the question.
11 He thinks I am hard and prosaic , and is disappointed in me.
12 These are kind of prosaic uses of a bold new tech, no?
13 The reality for the Garda Siochana is a little bit more prosaic .
14 After the poet-psalmist came the prosaic and keen-sighted shrewd man of affairs.
15 Such, then, in prosaic statement is the most characteristic message of Wordsworth.
16 The canal is his master hobby, the poetry of his prosaic existence.
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