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61commonplace — n Commonplace, platitude, truism, bromide, cliche mean an idea or expression lacking in originality or freshness. A commonplace is a stock idea or expression which is frequently little more than the obvious, conventional, and easy thing to think… …
62truism — *commonplace, platitude, bromide, cliché Analogous words: triteness, threadbareness (see corresponding adjectives at TRITE): banality, jejuneness, inanity (see corresponding adjectives at INSIPID) …
63aridity — n 1. aridness, parchedness, extreme dryness, dehydration, evaporation, desiccation; torridity, torridness. 2. barrenness, unproductivity, unproductiveness, sterility, sterileness; infertility, infertileness, unfertili ty, unfruitfulness,… …
64bathos — n 1. anticlimax, comedown, letdown, bringdown, drop. 2. triteness, triviality, superficiality, shallowness; inanity, insipidness, emptiness, vacuity, vapidity, jejuneness; dullness, lifelessness, deadness, staleness; weakness, thinness, wishy… …
65insipidity — n 1. flatness, uninterestingness, jejuneness, jejunity, colorlessness, inexpressiveness, unimagi nativeness, lack of imagination or expression, insipidness; lifelessness, saplessness, spiritlessness, zestlessness, lack of vitality or animation,… …
66mildness — n 1. gentleness, tenderness, softness; amiability, affability, geniality, cordiality, graciousness, kindheartedness, benignity, benignancy, mansue tude, kindliness, warmth, milk of human kindness, sweetness; forbearance, patience, toleration,… …
67tedium — n tediousness, monotony, monotonousness, routine, fixed routine, rut, groove, fixed schedule; lack of variety, changelessness, uniformity, sameness, selfsameness; repetition, iteration, reiteration, recurrence, redundancy; boredom, ennui, U.S. Si …
68jejune — /dʒəˈdʒun / (say juh joohn) adjective 1. unsatisfying to the mind; dull; boring. 2. deficient in nourishing or substantial qualities. {Latin jējūnus fasting, empty, dry, poor} –jejunely, adverb –jejuneness, jejunity /dʒəˈdʒunəti/ (say juh… …
69jejune — [ji jo͞on′] adj. [L jejunus, empty, dry, barren] 1. not nourishing; barren 2. not interesting or satisfying; dull or empty 3. [? by confusion with JUVENILE] not mature; childish jejunely adv. jejuneness n …
70dullness — noun 1. the quality of being slow to understand • Syn: ↑obtuseness • Derivationally related forms: ↑obtuse (for: ↑obtuseness), ↑dull • Hypernyms: ↑stupi …
