Thesaurus:common

Thesaurus:common

THESAURUS

common

English

Synonyms

• average

• banal

• bog standard

• common

• commonplace

• common-or-garden

• conventional

• everyday

• familiar    [WS]

• garden variety

• general

• normal    [WS]

• par for the course

• pedestrian

• plain

• regular

• routinary

• routine

• standard

• typical

• usual

• run-of-the-mill idiom

• workaday

Antonyms

• abnormal

• atypical

• exceptional

• exotic

• uncommon

• endangered

• extraordinary

• rare

• strange    [WS]

• unconventional

• unique    [WS]

• unusual

See also

• Thesaurus:bare-bones
• Thesaurus:boring
• Thesaurus:hackneyed
• Thesaurus:mediocre

Further reading

• “136. frequency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “80. normality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “78. generality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “common” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.