Frequent vs Commonplace - What's the difference?

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Frequent is a related term of commonplace.

As adjectives the difference between frequent and commonplace

is that frequent is frequent; often while commonplace is ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.

As a noun commonplace is

a platitude or.

As a verb commonplace is

to make a commonplace book.

frequent

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) frequent, from (etyl) .Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English

Adjective

Done or occurring often; common.

I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.

There are frequent trains to the beach available.

I am a frequent visitor to that city.

Occurring at short intervals.

* Byron

frequent feudal towers

Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.

* Jonathan Swift

He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.

(obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.

* Ben Jonson

'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.

(obsolete) Often or commonly reported.

* Massinger

'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) frequenter, from (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

To visit often.

I used to frequent that restaurant.

Derived terms

* frequenter

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commonplace

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.

* 1824 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch. 7:

"This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."

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* 1911 , (w), (Under Western Eyes) , ch. 1:

I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.

Synonyms

* routine * undistinguished * unexceptional * See also

Antonyms

* distinguished * inimitable * unique

Noun

(en noun)

A platitude or .

* 1899 , , Active Service , ch. 17:

Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.

* 1910 , , His Hour , ch. 4:

And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

Something that is ordinary.

* 1891 , , "A Case of Identity" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes :

"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence."

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.

* Jonathan Swift

Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace .

A commonplace book.

Verb

(commonplac)

To make a commonplace book.

To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.

* Felton

I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the historians.

(obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

* 1910 , , His Hour , ch. 4:

And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

(Francis Bacon)