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common
noun
1 common
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.
synonyms: commons, green, park.
Roget 344:
plain,
table-land,
face of the country;
open country,
champaign country†;
basin,
downs,
waste,
weary waste,
desert,
wild,
steppe,
pampas,
savanna,
prairie,
heath,
common,
wold†,
veldt;
moor,
moorland;
bush;
plateau
etc.
(level)
213;
campagna†;
alkali flat,
llano;
mesa,
mesilla [U.S.],
playa;
shaking prairie,
trembling prairie;
vega [Sp.].
meadow,
mead,
haugh†,
pasturage,
park,
field,
lawn,
green,
plat,
plot,
grassplat†,
greensward,
sward,
turf,
sod,
heather;
lea,
ley,
lay;
grounds;
maidan†,
agostadero†.
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Dutch: normaal, gewoon, park
adjective
1 common
Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public.
Roget 643:
unimportant;
of little account,
of small account,
of no account,
of little importance,
of no importance
etc.
642;
immaterial;
unessential,
nonessential;
indifferent.
subordinate
etc.
(inferior)
34;
mediocre
etc.
(average)
29;
passable,
fair,
respectable,
tolerable,
commonplace;
uneventful,
mere,
common;
ordinary
etc.
(habitual)
613;
inconsiderable,
so-so,
insignificant,
inappreciable.
trifling,
trivial;
slight,
slender,
light,
flimsy,
frothy,
idle;
puerile
etc.
(foolish)
499;
airy,
shallow;
weak
etc.
160;
powerless
etc.
158;
frivolous,
petty,
niggling;
piddling,
peddling;
fribble†,
inane,
ridiculous,
farcical;
finical,
finikin†;
fiddle-faddle,
fingle-fangle†,
namby-pamby,
wishy-washy,
milk and water.
poor,
paltry,
pitiful;
contemptible
etc.
(contempt)
930;
sorry,
mean,
meager,
shabby,
miserable,
wretched,
vile,
scrubby,
scrannel†,
weedy,
niggardly,
scurvy,
putid†,
beggarly,
worthless,
twopennyhalfpenny,
cheap,
trashy,
catchpenny,
gimcrack,
trumpery;
one-horse [U.S.].
not worth the pains,
not worth while,
not worth mentioning,
not worth speaking of,
not worth a thought,
not worth a curse,
not worth a straw
etc.
n.;
beneath notice,
unworthy of notice,
beneath regard,
unworthy of regard,
beneath consideration,
unworthy of consideration;
de lana caprina [It];
vain
etc.
(useless)
645.
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Roget 78:
general,
generic,
collective;
broad,
comprehensive,
sweeping;
encyclopedical†,
widespread
etc.
(dispersed)
73.
universal;
catholic,
catholical†;
common,
worldwide;
ecumenical,
oecumenical†;
transcendental;
prevalent,
prevailing,
rife,
epidemic,
besetting;
all over,
covered with.
Pan-American,
Anglican†,
Pan-Hellenic,
Pan-Germanic,
slavic;
panharmonic†.
every,
all;
unspecified,
impersonal.
customary
etc.
(habitual)
613.
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2 common
Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.
3 common
Common to or shared by two or more parties:
— A common friend.
synonym: mutual.
Polish: wspólny
4 common
Commonly encountered:
— A common (or familiar) complaint.
synonym: usual.
Roget 613:
habitual;
accustomary†;
prescriptive,
accustomed
etc.
v.;
of daily occurrence,
of everyday occurrence;
consuetudinary†;
wonted,
usual,
general,
ordinary,
common,
frequent,
everyday,
household,
garden variety,
jog,
trot;
well-trodden,
well-known;
familiar,
vernacular,
trite,
commonplace,
conventional,
regular,
set,
stock,
established,
stereotyped;
prevailing,
prevalent;
current,
received,
acknowledged,
recognized,
accredited;
of course,
admitted,
understood.
conformable.
etc.
82;
according to use,
according to custom,
according to routine;
in vogue,
in fashion,
in,
with it;
fashionable
etc.
(genteel)
852.
wont;
used to,
given to,
addicted to,
attuned to,
habituated
etc.
v.;
in the habit of;
habitue;
at home in
etc.
(skillful)
698;
seasoned;
imbued with;
devoted to,
wedded to.
hackneyed,
fixed,
rooted,
deep-rooted,
ingrafted†,
permanent,
inveterate,
besetting;
naturalized;
ingrained
etc.
(intrinsic)
5.
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Roget 136:
frequent,
many times,
not rare,
thickcoming†,
incessant,
perpetual,
continual,
steady,
constant,
thick;
uniform;
repeated
etc.
104;
customary
etc.
613
(habit)
613;
regular
(normal)
80;
according to rule
etc.
(conformable)
82.
common,
everyday,
usual,
ordinary,
familiar.
old-hat,
boring,
well-known,
trivial.
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Roget 82:
conformable to rule;
regular
etc.
136;
according to regulation,
according to rule,
according to Hoyle,
according to Cocker,
according to Gunter;
en regle [Fr.],
selon les regles [Fr.],
well regulated,
orderly;
symmetric
etc.
242.
conventional
etc.
(customary)
613;
of daily occurrence,
of everyday occurrence;
in the natural order of things;
ordinary,
common,
habitual,
usual,
everyday,
workaday.
in the order of the day;
naturalized.
typical,
normal,
nominal,
formal;
canonical,
orthodox,
sound,
strict,
rigid,
positive,
uncompromising,
Procrustean.
secundum artem [Lat.],
shipshape,
technical.
exempIe [Fr.].
illustrative,
in point.
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Roget 871:
expecting
etc.
v.;
unamazed,
astonished at nothing;
blase
etc.
(weary)
841;
expected
etc.
v.;
foreseen;
unsurprising.
common,
ordinary,
normal,
typical,
usual
etc.
(habitual)
613.
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Roget 80:
normal,
natural,
unexceptional;
common,
usual
(frequency)
136;
5 common
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language:
— Common parlance.
synonyms: vernacular, vulgar.
6 common
Of or associated with the great masses of people:
— The common people in those days suffered greatly.
— Behavior that branded him as common.
synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar.
Roget 876:
ignoble,
common,
mean,
low,
base,
vile,
sorry,
scrubby,
beggarly;
below par;
no great shakes
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
homely,
homespun;
vulgar,
low-minded;
snobbish.
plebeian,
proletarian;
of low parentage,
of low origin,
of low extraction,
of mean parentage,
of mean origin,
of mean extraction;
lowborn,
baseborn,
earthborn†;
mushroom,
dunghill,
risen from the ranks;
unknown to fame,
obscure,
untitled.
rustic,
uncivilized;
loutish,
boorish,
clownish,
churlish,
brutish,
raffish;
rude,
unlicked†.
barbarous,
barbarian,
barbaric,
barbaresque†;
cockney,
born within sound of Bow bells.
underling,
menial,
subaltern.
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Polish: plebejski
7 common
Of low or inferior quality or value:
— Produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population.
synonym: coarse.
8 common
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste:
— Behavior that branded him as common.
synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar.
Roget 851:
in bad taste vulgar,
unrefined.
coarse,
indecorous,
ribald,
gross;
unseemly,
unbeseeming†,
unpresentable†;
contra bonos mores [Lat.];
ungraceful
etc.
(ugly)
846.
dowdy;
slovenly
etc.
(dirty)
653;
ungenteel,
shabby genteel;
low,
common,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
etc.
(plebeian)
876;
uncourtly†;
uncivil
etc.
(discourteous)
895;
ill bred,
ill mannered;
underbred;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unladylike,
unfeminine;
wild,
wild as an unbacked colt.
untutored,
unschooled
(ignorant)
491.
unkempt.
uncombed,
untamed,
unlicked†,
unpolished,
uncouth;
plebeian;
incondite†;
heavy,
rude,
awkward;
homely,
homespun,
home bred;
provincial,
countrified,
rustic;
boorish,
clownish;
savage,
brutish,
blackguard,
rowdy,
snobbish;
barbarous,
barbaric;
Gothic,
unclassical†,
doggerel,
heathenish,
tramontane,
outlandish;
uncultivated;
Bohemian.
obsolete
etc.
(antiquated)
124;
unfashionable;
newfangled
etc.
(unfamiliar)
83;
odd
etc.
(ridiculous)
853.
particular;
affected
etc.
855;
meretricious;
extravagant,
monstrous,
horrid;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
gaudy,
tawdry,
overornamented,
baroque,
rococo;
bedizened,
tricked out,
gingerbread;
obtrusive.
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Polish: pospolity, prostacki, gminny
9 common
To be expected; standard.
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