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as in average, ordinaryas in generally known; held in commonas in low, coarse

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commonest

adjective as in average, ordinary

Strongest matches

  • accepted
  • commonplace
  • everyday
  • familiar
  • frequent
  • natural
  • prevailing
  • prevalent
  • routine
  • simple
  • trivial
  • typical
  • universal

Strong matches

  • bourgeois
  • characteristic
  • current
  • daily
  • general
  • humdrum
  • plain
  • probable
  • regular
  • standard
  • stock

Weak matches

  • banal
  • casual
  • colloquial
  • comformable
  • conventional
  • customary
  • habitual
  • hackneyed
  • homely
  • informal
  • mediocre
  • monotonous
  • passable
  • prosaic
  • run-of-the-mill
  • stale
  • stereotyped
  • trite
  • undistinguished
  • unvaried
  • usual
  • wearisome
  • workaday
  • worn-out

adjective as in generally known; held in common

Strongest matches

  • accepted
  • popular
  • prevailing
  • prevalent
  • shared
  • universal

Strong matches

  • collective
  • community
  • constant
  • correspondent
  • general
  • generic
  • joint
  • like
  • public
  • reciprocal
  • social

Weak matches

  • coincident
  • communal
  • communistic
  • commutual
  • congruous
  • conjoint
  • conjunct
  • corporate
  • customary
  • in common
  • intermutual
  • mutual
  • socialistic
  • united
  • usual
  • well-known
  • widespread

adjective as in low, coarse

Strong matches

  • hack
  • inferior
  • mean
  • middling
  • nondescript
  • pedestrian
  • philistine
  • plebeian
  • poor
  • shoddy

Weak matches

  • baseborn
  • characterless
  • cheap
  • colorless
  • crass
  • declassé
  • déclassé
  • hackneyed
  • impure
  • low-grade
  • passable
  • prosy
  • raffish
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • sleazy
  • stale
  • trite
  • undistinguished
  • vulgar

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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