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run of the mill
adjective as in mediocre
adjective as in medium
adjective as in middling
adjective as in normal
adjective as in ordinary
adjective as in ordinary
Strong matches
adjective as in pedestrian
adjective as in prevalent
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adjective as in average
Strong matches
adjective as in regular
adjective as in run-of-the-mill
adjective as in so-so
adjective as in standard
adjective as in stock
adjective as in tolerable
Strongest matches
adjective as in trite
Weak matches
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- drained
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- 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
adjective as in undistinguished
Strongest matches
adjective as in unexceptional
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- average
- characterless
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- dull
- everyday
- fair
- garden-variety
- insignificant
- modest
- no great shakes
- normal
- nothing special
- nothing to write home about
- pedestrian
- plain
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- second-rate
- typical
- undistinguished
- uneventful
- unexciting
- unimpressive
- uninspired
- unmemorable
- unnoteworthy
- usual
adjective as in unexciting
adjective as in usual
Strongest matches
adjective as in vulgar
adjective as in formulaic
adjective as in overused
adjective as in platitudinal
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- cliched
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in platitudinous
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in stereotypical
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Strong match
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in unremarkable
Strongest matches
adjective as in warmed-over
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in colorless
Strongest matches
adjective as in common
Strongest matches
adjective as in commonplace
adjective as in conventional
Strongest match
Weak matches
- bigoted
- bourgeois
- button-down
- commonplace
- conforming
- conservative
- demure
- doctrinal
- dogmatic
- drippy
- hackneyed
- hidebound
- humdrum
- illiberal
- in rut
- inflexible
- insular
- isolationist
- lame
- literal
- moderate
- moral
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- not extreme
- not heretical
- obstinate
- parochial
- pedestrian
- prosaic
- puritanical
- routine
- rube
- run-of-the-mill
- sober
- solemn
- square
- stereotyped
- straight
- strait-laced
- strict
- stuffy
- uptight
adjective as in dull
Strongest matches
adjective as in everyday
adjective as in general
adjective as in hackneyed
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Most cases involve significant mental illness, not run-of-the-mill depression or anxiety.
The results yield computer chips 9,000 times faster than a run-of-the-mill computer, using only the power of a tablet PC.
A c--t is different than your run-of-the-mill jerk (or scoundrel, or creep, or whatever).
Sabo is as incoherent and hateful as any run-of-the-mill troll.
The ad, for former Republican city council member Carl DeMaio, is in many ways a run-of-the-mill American political commercial.
The street was full of people—strangers who didn't look like your run-of-the-mill artist.
This is not—and when I say this, I mean the Oswald case—is not an ordinary run-of-the-mill-type of case.
Feature story, maybe, but it's pretty run-of-the-mill stuff, even at that.
Knowledge like this was too much for the ordinary run-of-the-mill person.
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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run-of-the-mill, such as: middling, undistinguished, common, commonplace, customary, and dime a dozen.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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