common

adj

1. mutual, collective, correlative, communal; reciprocal, interchangeable, interactive, correspondent, complementary, Archaic. commutal; joint, shared, parallel, twin, fellow; united, unified, consensual, concerted, unanimous.

2. public, community, civic, civil; state, national, international; social, societal, generic, racial.

3. widespread, general, universal, world-wide; ordinary, usual, conventional; prevailing, current, popular; customary, wonted, accustomed, habitual, routine, repeated, recurrent; established, acknowledged; ritual, traditional, orthodox, consuetudinary, Inf. according to Hoyle, Inf.S.O.P.; received, approved, understood; familiar, known, everyday, daily, average, normal, standard, Inf.G.I.

4. ordinary, plain, simple; native, domestic, homespun, garden-variety, run-of-the-mill, household, commonplace; homely, salt-of-the-earth, workday; vernacular, colloquial, informal, prosaic, pedestrian, plebeian, bourgeois, provincial; subordinate, minor, indistinguished, insignificant, inferior, of no value, worthless, low-bred, low-brow, ill-bred; nameless, ignominious, inglorious, ignoble, Sl. cottonpicking, Sl. no great shakes.

5. hackneyed, trite, stale, oft-repeated, oft met with, expected; overused, worn-out, well-trodden, in the beaten path; mediocre, indifferent, middling, indiscriminate, stock, unexceptional, Inf. dime-a-dozen.

6. mean, low, vile, cheap, base, lewd, depraved; indelicate, gross, trashy, tawdry; odious, low-minded, unseemly, of the street; coarse, vulgar, poor, shabby, ignoble; untutored, illiterate, uncouth, ill-mannered, uncultured, unrefined, unwashed, Philistine.

n

7. green, square, village green or square; commons, quadrangle, mall, greensward, grassplot; park, campus.