Thesaurus:common
English
Adjective
Sense: occurring or happening regularly or frequently
Synonyms
- average
- banal
- basic
- bog standard
- common
- common as bums (Australia, US, simile)
- common as muck (UK, simile)
- commonplace
- common-or-garden
- common or garden variety
- conventional
- dime a dozen (Australia, US, idiomatic)
- everyday
- familiar [⇒ thesaurus]
- garden variety
- general
- nonrare
- normal [⇒ thesaurus]
- par for the course
- pedestrian
- plain
- plain Jane
- plain vanilla
- quotidian
- regular
- routinary
- routine
- standard [⇒ thesaurus]
- standard issue
- ten a penny (UK, idiomatic)
- two a penny (UK, idiomatic)
- typical
- usual
- run-of-the-mill (idiom)
- workaday
Antonyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “136. frequency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “80. normality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “78. generality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “common” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.