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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, cliché, clichéd, common, cornball, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, familiar tune, flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, used-up, vapid, warmed-over, well-worn, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent, relevant, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, bromidic, clichéd, common, conventional, cornball, cornfed, corny, dull as dishwater, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, hokey, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, noplace, nothing, nowhere, old hat, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy, zero* |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | low, coarse |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middle-of-the-road, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah, boring, bromidic, draggy, dreary, dull as dishwater, dusty, ho hum, impassive, inelaborate, insipid, matter-of-fact, modest, monotonous, naked, phlegmatic, plain, simple, tedious, tiresome, trite, weariful, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | exciting, interesting, juicy, lively, untiring |
| Main Entry: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | abused, archaic, arid, big yawn, blah, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, dismal, dreary, driveling, dry, familiar, flat, hackneyed, heavy, ho hum, hoary, humdrum*, insipid, jejune, longwinded, monotonous, oft-repeated, ordinary, out-of-date, plain, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, stale, stock, stupid, tame, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unimaginative, uninspiring, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | active, exciting, interesting, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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