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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | general, dominant |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, by the numbers, catholic, common, comprehensive, current, customary, ecumenical, established, familiar, fashionable, in style, in vogue, influential, main, operative, ordinary, popular, predominant, predominating, preponderating, prevalent, principal, rampant, regnant, regular, rife, ruling, set, steady, sweeping, universal, usual, widespread, worldwide |
| Antonyms: | individual, minor, peculiar, private, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | actual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing at the present time |
| Synonyms: | current, exact, existent, extant, live, living, original, prevailing |
| Antonyms: | hypothetical, imaginary, nominal, past, reputed, theoretical, unreal |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
| Synonyms: | accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally known; held in common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, normal |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, button-down, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, in established usage, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, tralatitious, typical, usual, well-known, wonted |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, exotic, foreign, irregular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, common knowledge, customary, cutting-edge, doing, existent, extant, fad, fashionable, general, going around, hot*, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, in vogue, instant, leading-edge, mod, modern, now*, on front burner, ongoing, popular, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread |
| Antonyms: | antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dominant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superior, controlling |
| Synonyms: | ascendant, assertive, authoritative, bossy, chief, commanding, demonstrative, despotic, domineering, effective, first, foremost, governing, imperative, imperious, leading, main, obtaining, outweighing, overbalancing, overbearing, overweighing, paramount, powerful, predominant, predominate, preeminent, preponderant, presiding, prevailing, prevalent, principal, regnant, reigning, ruling, sovereign, supreme, surpassing, transcendent |
| Antonyms: | humble, inferior, modest, reserved, retiring, unaggressive, unassuming, uncontrolling |
| Main Entry: | dominant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | main, primary |
| Synonyms: | capital, chief, influential, major, number one, outstanding, paramount, predominant, preeminent, prevailing, prevalent, principal, prominent, stellar |
| Antonyms: | inferior, secondary, subordinate |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Antonyms: | limited |
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