commonplace

obvious and dull

• “trivial conversation”
• “commonplace prose”

completely ordinary and unremarkable

• “air travel has now become commonplace”
• “commonplace everyday activities”

not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

• “an unglamorous job greasing engines”

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• “bromidic sermons”
• “his remarks were trite and commonplace”
• “hackneyed phrases”
• “a stock answer”
• “repeating threadbare jokes”
• “parroting some timeworn axiom”
• “the trite metaphor”
• “'”

a trite or obvious remark