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boiler plate

ADJECTIVE
commonplace
Synonyms
STRONGEST
customary mundane normal obvious prevalent typical
STRONG
familiar humdrum mainstream middling natural ordinary pedestrian plebeian starch vanilla
WEAK
characterless clichéd colorless conventional corny dime-a-dozen familiar tune garden variety hackneyed lowly matter-of-course mediocre middle-of-the-road prosaic run-of-the-mill stale stereotyped threadbare trite uneventful unexceptional uninteresting unnoteworthy widespread workaday worn-out
Antonyms
STRONGEST
abnormal different irregular rare uncommon unconventional unusual
STRONG
exceptional extraordinary
WEAK
infrequent peculiar
NOUN
cliché
Synonyms
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adage banality bromide buzzword chestnut commonplace corn counterword familiar tune motto old story platitude potboiler prosaism proverb saying shibboleth slogan stale saying stereotype threadbare phrase trite remark triteness triviality truism vapid expression
NOUN
platitude
Synonyms
STRONGEST
banality bromide
STRONG
buzzword chestnut commonplace corn evenness flatness hokum inanity insipidity monotony motto potboiler proverb saw shibboleth stereotype tag triteness triviality truism vapidity verbiage
WEAK
cliché familiar tune hackneyed saying high camp old chestnut old story prosaicism trite remark
Antonyms
WEAK
coinage nuance

Example Sentences

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The specific assignments seem relatively low-level boiler plate that was heavily informed by the detailed instructions.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2023

The FRC beefed up its decade-old stewardship code in 2020 to stop "boiler plate" statements about investment decision-making that it said did little to show if investors were getting value for money.

From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2021

These two ideas are practically boiler plate at this point in the pandemic.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2020

Your comment is heart-felt but it is heavy on boiler plate rhetoric and short on facts.

From Economist • Dec. 18, 2013

A strange example of depending on the stone foundation for not simply support, but to resist strain, may be found in the machines used for beveling the edges of boiler plate.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various