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common

adjective
  1. Belonging to, shared by, or applicable to all alike: communal, conjoint, general, joint, mutual, public. See group
  2. Belonging or relating to the whole: general, generic, universal. See specific
  3. Occurring quite often: everyday, familiar, frequent, regular, routine, widespread. See usual
  4. Commonly encountered: average, commonplace, general, normal, ordinary, typical, usual. See surprise
  5. Lacking high station or birth: baseborn, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean 2, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. Archaic: base 2. See over
  6. Being 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, usual
  7. Of 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 good
  8. Of low or lower quality: inferior, low-grade, low-quality, mean 2, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard. See better
  9. Known widely and unfavorably: infamous, notorious. See knowledge
noun
  1. 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, ruck 1, third estate. See over
  2. A tract of cultivated land belonging to and used by a community: green. See group

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