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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea held as standard, example |
| Synonyms: | average, boilerplate, convention, custom, fashion, formula, institution, mold, pattern, received idea |
| Antonyms: | difference |
| 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: | undistinguished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | average, characterless, common, commonplace, dull, everyday, fair, garden-variety, generic, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, nothing special, nothing to write home about, pedestrian, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, unexciting, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, usual |
| Main Entry: | unexceptional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | average, characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, everyday, fair, garden-variety, insignificant, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, nothing special, nothing to write home about, pedestrian, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, typical, undistinguished, uneventful, unexciting, unimpressive, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, usual |
| Notes: | unexceptional is ordinary and not outstanding; unexceptionable means not open to objections |
| Main Entry: | usual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, typical |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, average, chronic, commonplace, constant, conventional, current, customary, cut-and-dried, everyday, expected, familiar, fixed, frequent, garden variety, general, grind, habitual, mainstream, matter-of-course, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plastic, prevailing, prevalent, quotidian, regular, rife, routine, run-of-the-mill, so-so, standard, stock, typic, unremarkable, vanilla, white-bread, wonted, workaday |
| 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, atypical, irregular, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | medial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | middle |
| Synonyms: | average, center, central, mean, median, ordinary |
| Main Entry: | arithmetic mean |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | average value |
| Synonyms: | average, expectation, expected value, first moment, mean, sample mean, simple average |
| Main Entry: | medial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | median |
| Synonyms: | average, between, center, central, halfway, innermost, intermediate, mean, middle, midway |
| Main Entry: | formulaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | average, common, commonplace, conventional, customary, cut-and-dried, everyday, garden-variety, imitative, mechanical, normal, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unoriginal, unremarkable, usual |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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