ordinary; undistinguished or uninteresting; without individuality

a commonplace person.

trite; hackneyed; platitudinous

a commonplace remark.

a well-known, customary, or obvious remark; a trite or uninteresting saying.

anything common, ordinary, or uninteresting.

Archaic . a place or passage in a book or writing noted as important for reference or quotation.

adjective

exceptional , infrequent , peculiar , rare , uncommon , unusual

adjective

boiler plate , characterless , clichd , colorless , conventional , corny * , customary , dime-a-dozen , familiar , familiar tune , garden variety , hackneyed , humdrum , lowly , mainstream , matter-of-course , mediocre , middle-of-the-road * , middling , mundane , natural , normal , obvious , ordinary , pedestrian , plebeian , prevalent , prosaic , run-of-the-mill * , stale , starch , stereotyped , threadbare , trite , typical , uneventful , unexceptional , uninteresting , unnoteworthy , vanilla * , widespread , workaday , worn-out , average , general , usual , common , cut-and-dried , formulaic , garden , garden-variety , indifferent , plain , routine , run-of-the-mill , standard , stock , undistinguished , unremarkable , banal , bromidic , corny , musty , overused , overworked , platitudinal , platitudinous , shopworn , stereotypic , stereotypical , timeworn , tired , warmed-over , well-worn

noun

banality , bromide * , chestnut * , clich , corn * , inanity , motto , platitude , prosaicism , prosaism , prose , rubber stamp * , shallowness , shibboleth , stereotype , tag , triteness , triviality truism , bromide , truism , norm , ordinary , rule , banal , daily , dull , everyday , exoteric , garden , hackneyed , humdrum , mainstream , mundane , obvious , plain , prosaic , stale , stereotyped , tolerable , trite , trivial , uneventful , unimportant , usual , worn