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DIME DOZEN
| Main Entry: |
dime a dozen
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very common or numerous |
| Synonyms: | cheap and commonplace, superabundant |
| Main Entry: | bountiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, aplenty, bounteous, copious, crawling with, dime a dozen, exuberant, free, galore, generous, handsome, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, magnanimous, munificent, no end of, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prolific, stink with, unsparing |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, lacking, meagre, sparse, wanting |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexpensive |
| Synonyms: | at a bargain, bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, bought for a song, budget, buy, cheapo, competitive, cost next to nothing, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, dime a dozen, easy on the pocketbook, economical, half-priced, irregular, low tariff, low-cost, low-priced, lowered, marked down, moderate, nominal, on sale, popularly priced, real buy, reasonable, reduced, sale, slashed, standard, steal, uncostly, undear, utility, worth the money |
| Notes: | cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp |
| Antonyms: | costly, dear, expensive |
| Main Entry: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexpensive |
| Synonyms: | bought for a song, cheap, cost next to nothing, cost nothing, cut rate, dime a dozen, dirt cheap, dog cheap, fair, low, low tariff, low-priced, marked down, moderate, modest, on sale, quite a buy, reasonable, reduced, sound, steal* |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Antonyms: | expensive, uneconomical, unreasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | everyday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, average, commonplace, conventional, customary, daily, dime a dozen, dull, familiar, frequent, garden variety, habitual, informal, lowly, mainstream, middle-of-the-road, mundane, normal, ordinary, per diem, plain, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, stock, unexceptional, unimaginative, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, whitebread, wonted, workaday |
| Notes: | everyday is an adjective and it means 'casual' or 'informal' with an implied contrast to formality, as well as the meaning of 'familiar, ordinary' in contrast with 'strange, unusual'; the time expression is written separately - every day |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, exceptional, special, uncommon, unexpected, unfamiliar, unusual |
| Main Entry: | generous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plentiful |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, full, galore, handsome, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, no end, no end in sight, overflowing, plenteous, rich, stinking with, unstinting, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | depleted, wanting |
| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, banausic, blah, bromidic, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, garden-variety, insipid, lifeless, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, plodding, prosy, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, uninteresting, unvaried, vanilla, wearisome, white-bread |
| Antonyms: | busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
| Main Entry: | inexpensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not high priced |
| Synonyms: | bargain, budget, buy, cheap, cost next to nothing, cut-rate, dime a dozen, dirt-cheap, economical, for a song, half-price, low, low-cost, low-priced, marked down, modest, nominal, popular, popularly priced, real buy, real steal, reasonable, reduced, steal, thrifty |
| Antonyms: | costly, dear, expensive, high-cost, high-priced |
| Main Entry: | liberal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, profuse |
| Synonyms: | ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, galore, generous, handsome, lavish, munificent, no end, plentiful, plenty, rich |
| Antonyms: | lacking, poor, wanting |
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