| Main Entry: | typical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, conventional |
Synonyms: |
archetypal, archetypical, average, characteristic, classic, classical, common, commonplace, emblematic, essential, everyday, exemplary, expected, general, habitual, ideal, illustrative, in character, in keeping, indicative, matter-of-course, model, natural, normal, old hat, ordinary, orthodox, paradigmatic, patterned, prevalent, prototypal, prototypical, quintessential, regular, representative, standard, standardized, stock, suggestive, symbolic, typic, unexceptional |
Antonyms: |
atypical, different, rare, unconventional, unorthodox, unusual |
| 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: | classic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic, regular |
Synonyms: |
prototypal, prototypical, representative, simple, standard, time-honored, typical, usual, vintage |
| Notes: | for classic, assume the meaning 'of the highest class' and 'typical, excellent as an example; timeless' and for classical 'pertaining to or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity or civilization' |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, irregular, uncharacteristic |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
Synonyms: |
boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, 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, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, normal |
Synonyms: |
accepted, accustomed, button-down, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, in established usage, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, tralatitious, typical, usual, well-known, wonted |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, exotic, foreign, irregular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual |
| Main Entry: | distinctive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different, unique |
Synonyms: |
characteristic, cool, diacritic, diagnostic, discrete, distinguishing, excellent, extraordinary, far cry, gnarly, idiosyncratic, individual, like night and day, offbeat, original, outstanding, peculiar, perfect, poles apart, proper, separate, single, singular, special, superior, typical, uncommon, unreal, weird, wicked |
Antonyms: |
common, normal, resembling, same, similar, standard |
| Main Entry: | exemplary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ideal |
Synonyms: |
admirable, batting a thousand, blameless, bueno, characteristic, classic, classical, commendable, correct, estimable, excellent, good, guiltless, honorable, illustrative, inculpable, innocent, irreprehensible, laudable, meritorious, model, neato, not bad, not too shabby, paradigmatic, praiseworthy, prototypical, punctilious, pure, quintessential, representative, righteous, sterling, typical, virtuous, worthy |
Antonyms: |
erring, incorrect, unideal, wrong |
| Main Entry: | figurative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not literal, but symbolic |
Synonyms: |
allegorical, denotative, descriptive, emblematic, emblematical, fanciful, florid, flowery, illustrative, metaphoric, metaphorical, ornate, pictorial, poetical, representative, signifying, typical |
Antonyms: |
literal, real, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | general |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, accepted |
Synonyms: |
accustomed, broad, commonplace, conventional, customary, everyday, extensive, familiar, generic, habitual, humdrum, inclusive, matter-of-course, natural, normal, ordinary, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, typical, uneventful, universal, usual, wide, widespread, wonted |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, individual, novel, rare, unaccepted, uncommon, unique, unusual |