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| Main Entry: | ordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, regular |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, customary, established, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, humdrum*, natural, normal, popular, prevailing, public, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill*, settled, standard, stock, traditional, typical, usual, wonted |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, extraordinary, irregular, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average; not distinctive |
| Synonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, dull, fair, familiar, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, normal, pedestrian, plain, plastic, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill*, second-rate, simple, so-so*, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unpretentious, usual, vanilla*, characterless, garden variety, no great shakes, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, white-bread, workaday |
| Antonyms: | different, distinctive, remarkable, special |
* = 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: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, familiar, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, mediocre, middle-of-the-road*, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, vanilla*, widespread, worn-out, boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, dime-a-dozen, familiar tune, garden variety, matter-of-course, unnoteworthy, workaday |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Notes: | habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed practice; customary means in accordance with convention or custom; usual means commonly or normally encountered, experienced, or observed |
| 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: | everyday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, average, commonplace, conventional, customary, daily, dime a dozen, dull, familiar, frequent, habitual, informal, lowly, mainstream, middle-of-the-road*, mundane, normal, ordinary, per diem, plain, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill*, stock, unexceptional, unimaginative, usual, vanilla*, wonted, garden variety, unremarkable, whitebread, workaday |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, exceptional, special, uncommon, unexpected, unfamiliar, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | homespun |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spun from home |
| Synonyms: | crude, handmade, homemade, ordinary, plain, rough, rustic, simple, unrefined, unsophisticated, handcrafted |
| Main Entry: | household |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic |
| Synonyms: | everyday, family, home, homely, homey, ordinary, plain, domiciliary |
| Antonyms: | business, commercial, industrial |
| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, insipid, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vanilla*, wearisome, banausic, bromidic, garden-variety, monotone, plodding, prosy, toneless, treadmill, unvaried, white-bread |
| Antonyms: | busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ignoble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, unworthy |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong, baseborn, scurvy, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | dignified, grand, high, honorable, noble, reputable, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | inconspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, unnoticeable |
| Synonyms: | camouflaged, concealed, dim, faint, hidden, indistinct, insignificant, low-key*, modest, ordinary, plain, quiet, retiring, secretive, shy, subtle, tenuous, unassuming, unobtrusive, low-profile, muted, soft-pedalled, unemphatic, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | conspicuous, exposed, noticeable, open, unhidden |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | informal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, simple |
| Synonyms: | breezy, colloquial, congenial, cool*, democratic, easy, easygoing, everyday, extempore, familiar, folksy, frank, free, homey, inconspicuous, intimate, loose, mellow, mixed, motley, natural, open, ordinary, spontaneous, sporty, straightforward, unceremonious, unconventional, unofficial, unrestrained, urbane, down home, free-and-easy, improv, laid back, low-pressure, off-the-cuff, relaxed, throwaway, unconstrained, unfussy, without ceremony |
| Antonyms: | ceremonious, formal, official, rigid, stiff, buttoned-up, dressed-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | inexpert, nonprofessional, ordinary, secular, temporal, nonclerical, nonspecialist, unsacred |
| Antonyms: | ordained, professional |
| Main Entry: | literal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | word for word; exact, real |
| Synonyms: | accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, true, unerring, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written, not figurative, to the letter, undeviating, unexaggerated |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose |
| Main Entry: | lowly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, plain |
| Synonyms: | average, base, common, commonplace, docile, dutiful, everyday, gentle, humble, ignoble, low, mean, meek, menial, mild, modest, mundane, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, plebeian, poor, prosaic, retiring, servile, simple, submissive, subordinate, unassuming, unpretentious, baseborn, cast down, lowborn, proletarian, reverential, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | higher, lofty, noble, pretentious, superior |
| Main Entry: | mediocre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | colorless, common, conventional, decent, dull, fair, fair to middling, humdrum*, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate, mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary, passable, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill*, second-rate, so-so*, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, uninspired, vanilla*, characterless, fairish, no great shakes, of poor quality |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary, inferior, superior, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | medium |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | midway, average |
| Synonyms: | common, commonplace, fair, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, middle, middling, moderate, neutral, normal, ordinary, par, passable, popular, run-of-the-mill*, so-so*, standard, tolerable, fairish |
| Antonyms: | extreme |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | middling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adequate, okay |
| Synonyms: | all right, average, common, conventional, decent, fair, good, indifferent, intermediate, mean, mediocre, medium, moderate, modest, okay, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill*, so-so*, tolerable, traditional, unexceptional, fairish, unremarkable |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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