Spiritless vs Commonplace - What's the difference?

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Spiritless is a related term of commonplace.

As adjectives the difference between spiritless and commonplace

is that spiritless is lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion enervated 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.

spiritless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.

:The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.

Synonyms

* languid

Derived terms

* spiritlessly * spiritlessness

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."

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}

* 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)