Thesaurus / no great shakes
other words for no great shakes
MOST RELEVANT
- decent
- dull
- inferior
- middling
- ordinary
- second-rate
- so-so
- undistinguished
- uninspired
- characterless
- colorless
- common
- conventional
- fair
- fair to middling
- fairish
- humdrum
- indifferent
- insignificant
- intermediate
- mainstream
- mean
- medium
- moderate
- of poor quality
- passable
- pedestrian
- run-of-the-mill
- standard
- tolerable
- unexceptional
- vanilla
opposites of no great shakes
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WORDS RELATED TO NO GREAT SHAKES
- characterless
- colorless
- common
- conventional
- decent
- dull
- fair
- fair to middling
- fairish
- humdrum
- indifferent
- inferior
- insignificant
- intermediate
- mainstream
- mean
- medium
- middling
- moderate
- no great shakes
- of poor quality
- ordinary
- passable
- pedestrian
- run-of-the-mill
- second-rate
- so-so
- standard
- tolerable
- undistinguished
- unexceptional
- uninspired
- vanilla
- characterless
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- dull
- fair
- familiar
- garden
- garden variety
- 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
- average
- characterless
- common
- commonplace
- dull
- everyday
- fair
- garden-variety
- generic
- mean
- mediocre
- modest
- no great shakes
- normal
- nothing special
- nothing to write home about
- pedestrian
- plain
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- second-rate
- so-so
- typical
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- unexciting
- uninspired
- unmemorable
- unnoteworthy
- unremarkable
- usual
- average
- characterless
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- dull
- everyday
- fair
- garden-variety
- insignificant
- mediocre
- modest
- no great shakes
- normal
- nothing special
- nothing to write home about
- pedestrian
- plain
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- second-rate
- so-so
- typical
- undistinguished
- uneventful
- unexciting
- unimpressive
- uninspired
- unmemorable
- unnoteworthy
- unremarkable
- usual
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