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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | commonplace, daily, everyday, trivial, usual |
| Antonyms: | exciting, unusual |
| 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: | hackneyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clichéd, tired |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny*, everyday, familiar tune, hokey, moth-eaten, obsolete, old, old-chestnut, old-hat, old-saw, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, overworked, pedestrian*, played-out, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tripe, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, regular |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, customary, established, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, humdrum*, natural, normal, popular, prevailing, public, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, settled, standard, stock, traditional, typical, usual, wonted |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, extraordinary, irregular, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | plain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, everyday |
| Synonyms: | average, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, homely, lowly, modest, ordinary, quotidian, routine, simple, traditional, usual, vanilla, white-bread, workaday |
| Notes: | plane is essentially the same word as plain, both ultimately coming from Latin planus 'flat' or 'clear' |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, complex, difficult, extraordinary, uncommon |
| Main Entry: | routine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | habitual |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, chronic, conventional, customary, everyday, familiar, general, methodical, normal, ordinary, periodic, plain, quotidian, regular, seasonal, standard, typical, unremarkable, usual, wonted, workaday |
| Antonyms: | breaking, different, original, untraditional, unusual |
| 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: | unremarkable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customary, cut-and-dried, established, everyday, familiar, formulaic, frequent, garden*, garden-variety, general, habitual, humdrum*, indifferent, mediocre, natural, normal, plain, popular, prevailing, public, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, settled, standard, stock, traditional, typical, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual, wonted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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