Another word for common
common
modif.
Commonplace
ordinary, everyday, familiar, usual, general, universal, natural, normal, accepted, characteristic, customary, prevalent, current, prevailing, typical, conventional, routine, prosaic, trite, banal, hackneyed, overused, stock, stale, worn thin, worn-out, homely, colloquial, nonliterary, vernacular, vulgar, popular, of the folk, of the masses, plebeian, humble, lowly, workaday, provincial, unsophisticated, average, passable, undistinguished, informal, conformable, probable, basic, simple, unvaried, trivial, oft-repeated, monotonous, tedious, wearisome, casual, unassuming, bourgeois, Philistine, uneducated, artless, unrefined, untutored, plain, homespun, unadorned, uncultured, slangy, platitudinous, truistic, obvious, quotidian, orthodox, traditional, standard, mediocre, second-rate, insipid, stereotyped, patent, moderate, middling, abiding, indifferent, pedestrian, tolerable, innocuous, unremarkable, nondescript, mere, so-so, not too bad, run-of-the-mill*, humdrum*, garden variety*, household*, warmed-over*, fair-to-middling*, low-level*, nothing to write home about*, no great shakes*, comme ci, comme ca* (French), a dime a dozen*; see also colloquial, conventional 1, dull 4, fair 2, popular 1, 3, traditional 2.
Of frequent occurrence
customary, constant, usual; see frequent, habitual 1, regular 3.
Generally known
general, prevalent, well-known; see familiar 1, traditional 2.
Low
cheap, inferior, mean, vulgar; see poor 2, subordinate, vulgar 1.
Held or enjoyed in common
shared, joint, mutual, communal, public, community, cooperative, united, belonging equally to, collective, reciprocal, coincident, correspondent, collaborative, consensual, general, socialistic, communistic, in common, commutual; see also cooperative 2, public 2, universal 3.
Antonyms private*, individual, personal.
common refers to that which is met with most frequently or is shared by all or most individuals in a group, body, etc., and may imply prevalence, usualness, or, in a depreciatory sense, inferiority or lack of distinction a common belief, a common thief; general implies connection with all or nearly all of a kind, class, or group and stresses extensiveness general unrest among the people; ordinary implies accordance with the regular or customary pattern; stressing commonplaceness and lack of special distinction an ordinary workday; familiar applies to that which is widely known and readily recognized a familiar feeling; popular and, in this connection, vulgar imply widespread currency or acceptance among the general public or the common people popular tastes, Vulgar Latin, with popular also used to indicate favor a popular song; vulgar, however, is rarely used now in this sense without pejorative connotations See also syn. study at mutual.
in common
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Another word for common
Belonging to, shared by, or applicable to all alike:
communal, conjoint, general, joint, mutual, public. See groupBelonging or relating to the whole:
general, generic, universal. See specificOccurring quite often:
everyday, familiar, frequent, regular, routine, widespread. See usualCommonly encountered:
average, commonplace, general, normal, ordinary, typical, usual. See surpriseLacking high station or birth:
baseborn, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean2, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. (Archaic) base2. See overBeing of no special quality or type:
average, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See good, usualOf moderately good quality but less than excellent:
acceptable, adequate, all right, average, decent, fair, fairish, goodish, moderate, passable, respectable, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerable. (Informal) OK, tidy. See goodOf low or lower quality:
inferior, low-grade, low-quality, mean2, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard. See betterKnown widely and unfavorably:
infamous, notorious. See knowledge
The common people.
Used in plural: commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck1, third estate. See overA tract of cultivated land belonging to and used by a community:
green. See group
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