| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
Synonyms: |
accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally known; held in common |
Synonyms: |
accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | commons |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dining hall |
Synonyms: |
canteen, mess hall |
| Main Entry: | acceptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cooking with gas, cool*, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip*, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome |
Antonyms: |
disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome |
| Main Entry: | accustomed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, usual |
Synonyms: |
accepted, chronic, common, conventional, customary, established, everyday, expected, general, habitual, ordinary, orthodox, regular, routine, set, traditional, typical |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, unaccustomed, unusual |
| Main Entry: | average |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, typical |
Synonyms: |
boilerplate, common, commonplace, customary, dime a dozen, everyday, fair, fair to middling, familiar, garden*, garden-variety, general, humdrum*, intermediate, mainstream, mediocre, medium, middle of the road, middling, moderate, nowhere, ordinary, passable, plastic, regular, run of the mill, so-so, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, outstanding, unusual |
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
Synonyms: |
blah*, bland, bromidic, clichéd, common, conventional, cornball, cornfed, corny, dull as dishwater, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, hokey, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, noplace, nothing, nowhere, old hat, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy, zero* |
Antonyms: |
fresh, new, original |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, low |
Synonyms: |
abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, depraved, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, foul, grovelling, humble, ignoble, immoral, indelicate, loathsome, lowly, mean, menial, offensive, paltry, pitiful, plebeian, poor, scandalous, servile, shameful, shoddy, sleazy, sordid, sorry, squalid, trashy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, moral, noble |
| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, old-line, traditional |
Antonyms: |
adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |