Commonplace
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: ordinary; having no remarkable features
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A platitude or cliché. Something that is ordinary.
Example sentence: Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Ordinary
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having regular jurisdiction (of a judge; now only used in certain phrases).Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane (often deprecatory).bad or undesirable.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A devotional manual.A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.An ordinary thing or person.A penny-farthing bicycle.
Example sentence: Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.