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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traditional |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, accustomed, classic, classical, conservative, conventional, customary, habitual, long-established, old, old line, popular, regular, rooted, time-honored |
| Main Entry: | ordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average; not distinctive |
| Synonyms: | characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, fair, familiar, garden variety, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, pedestrian, plain, plastic, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, simple, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, white-bread, workaday |
| Antonyms: | different, distinctive, remarkable, special |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prevalent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, widespread |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, common, commonplace, current, customary, established, everyday, extensive, faddy, frequent, general, habitual, in use, latest, latest word, leading edge, natural, new, normal, now*, ongoing, popular, prevailing, rampant, regnant, regular, rife, run-of-the-mill, state-of-the-art*, stylish, swinging, trendy, typic, typical, ubiquitous, universal, up-to-date, usual, with it, wonted |
| Antonyms: | isolated, limited, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recurrent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repeating |
| Synonyms: | alternate, chain, continued, cyclical, frequent, habitual, intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, periodic, periodical, recurring, regular, reoccurring, repeated, repetitive, rolling |
| Antonyms: | halted, infrequent, permanent, prevented, stopped |
| Main Entry: | regular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, common |
| Synonyms: | approved, bona fide, classic, commonplace, correct, customary, daily, established, everyday, formal, general, habitual, lawful, legitimate, natural, official, ordinary, orthodox, prevailing, prevalent, proper, routine, run-of-the-mill, sanctioned, standard, time-honored, traditional, typic, typical, unexceptional, unvarying, usual |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, anomalous, eccentric, extraordinary, irregular, rare, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | steady |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continuing |
| Synonyms: | ceaseless, confirmed, consistent, constant, continuous, equable, eternal, even, faithful, habitual, incessant, never-ending, nonstop, persistent, regular, rhythmic, stabile, stable, steady-going, unbroken, unfaltering, unfluctuating, uniform, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying, unwavering |
| Antonyms: | broken, discontinuous, intermittent |
| Main Entry: | traditional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, accustomed, acknowledged, ancestral, classic, classical, common, conventional, customary, doctrinal, fixed, folk, habitual, historic, immemorial, long-established, old, oral, popular, prescribed, regular, rooted, sanctioned, taken for granted, time-honored, transmitted, universal, unwritten, widely used, widespread |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, unestablished, unfixed, untraditional, unusual |
| 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: | uniform |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consistent |
| Synonyms: | compatible, consonant, constant, equable, even, fated, fateful, fixed, habitual, homogeneous, immutable, incorrigible, inflexible, invariable, irreversible, level, methodical, monolithic, normal, of a piece, ordered, orderly, ossified, plumb, regular, reliable, rigid, smooth, stable, static, steady, straight, symmetrical, systematic, true, unalterable, unbroken, unchanging, undeviating, undiversified, unfluctuating, unmodifiable, unvarying, well-balanced, well-proportioned |
| Antonyms: | changing, different, divergent, inconsistent, varied |
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