digress
Definition: (verb) to wander from the main path or the main topic.
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commonplace
adjective
- Commonly encountered: average, common, general, normal, ordinary, typical, usual. See
surprise
- Being of no special quality or type: average, common, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See
good, usual
- Without freshness or appeal because of overuse: banal, bromidic, clichéd, corny, hackneyed, musty, overused, overworked, platitudinal, platitudinous, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, warmed-over, well-worn, worn-out. See
excite, usual
noun
- A trite expression or idea: banality, bromide, cliché, platitude, stereotype, truism. See
surprise
- A regular or customary matter, condition, or course of events: norm, ordinary, rule, usual. See
usual
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