Thesaurus:common

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

• abnormal
• atypical
• exceptional
• exotic
• uncommon
• endangered
• extraordinary
• rare    [⇒ thesaurus]
• strange    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unconventional
• unique    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unusual

Various

• government issue
• wild type

See also

• Thesaurus:frequency
• Thesaurus:bare-bones
• Thesaurus:boring
• Thesaurus:hackneyed
• Thesaurus:mediocre

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.