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| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
| Synonyms: | accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, 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, usual, wearisome, worn-out, comformable, unvaried, workaday |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally known; held in common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, coincident, collective, communal, community, congruous, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread, communistic, commutual, conjoint, conjunct, in common, intermutual, socialistic |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
| Synonyms: | cheap, colorless, crass, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, raffish, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar, Philistine, baseborn, characterless, declassé, low-grade, prosy, second-class |
| 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: | adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cool*, decent, delightful, fair, hip*, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball*, passable, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, welcome, A-OK, cooking with gas, copacetic, hep, hunky-dory, in the swim, on the beam, peachy keen, right on, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, common, conventional, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, nothing, old hat, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy*, zero*, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, cornfed, dull as dishwater, ho hum, noplace, nowhere, platitudinous |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, depraved, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, foul, 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, grovelling |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, moral, noble |
| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, traditional, Philistine, hidebound, old-line |
| Antonyms: | adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | collective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | composite |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, assembled, combined, common, concentrated, concerted, cooperative, corporate, cumulative, gathered, heaped, joint, mutual, shared, unified, united, collated, compiled, conjoint, consolidated, grouped, hoarded, massed, piled |
| Antonyms: | divided, separate |
| Main Entry: | colloquial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, familiar to an area, informal |
| Synonyms: | chatty, common, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, popular, street*, vernacular, conversational, demotic, jive* |
| Antonyms: | correct, formal, standard, stilted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | communal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | collective; shared |
| Synonyms: | common, community, cooperative, general, joint, mutual, neighborhood, public, communistic, conjoint, conjunct, intermutual |
| Antonyms: | individual, personal, private, unshared |
| Main Entry: | corporate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | allied |
| Synonyms: | collective, combined, common, communal, concerted, incorporated, joint, shared, united, amalgamated, associated, collaborative, pooled |
| Main Entry: | customary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | SOP*, accepted, according to Hoyle*, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers*, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, normal, ordinary, orthodox, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, standard, standard operating procedure*, traditional, understood, universal, wonted, in a rut, in the groove, playing it safe, same old, stipulated |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | daily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occurring every day; during the day |
| Synonyms: | common, commonplace, constantly, day after day, everyday, often, ordinary, per diem, periodic, quotidian, regular, regularly, routine, circadian, cyclic, day by day, day-to-day, diurnal, from day to day, once a day, once daily |
| Antonyms: | nightly, nocturnal, at night |
| Main Entry: | defiled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupted, violated |
| Synonyms: | common, dirty, exposed, impure, tainted, unclean, besmirched, cooked, desecrated, dishonored, mucked up, polluted, profaned, ravished, spoilt, trashed, vitiated |
| Antonyms: | clean, hallowed, honorable, pure, sanctified, cleansed, purified |
| Main Entry: | democratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | representative, self-governing |
| Synonyms: | autonomous, common, communal, constitutional, egalitarian, equal, free, friendly, informal, just, orderly, popular, individualistic, libertarian, populist, self-ruling, socialist |
| Main Entry: | down-to-earth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reasonable, practical |
| Synonyms: | common, easy, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, mundane, no-nonsense, pragmatic, rational, realistic, sane, sensible, sober, commonsense, hardboiled, plainspoken, unfantastic, unidealistic, unsentimental |
| Antonyms: | excitable, excited, impractical, unreasonable, unsensible |
| Main Entry: | gender |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness |
| Synonyms: | common, feminine, masculine, neuter, gender-specific |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | square or park in center of town |
| Synonyms: | common, field, grass, lawn, plaza, terrace, turf, grassplot, sward |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted, addicting, cyclic, disciplined, iterated, iterative, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unusual, inhabitual, unestablished |
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