COMMON


Meaning of COMMON in English

n. 25B6; adjective

the common folk : ORDINARY, normal, average, unexceptional; simple.

a very common art form : USUAL, ordinary, familiar, regular, frequent, recurrent, everyday; standard, typical, conventional, stock, commonplace, run-of-the-mill.

a common belief : WIDESPREAD, general, universal, popular, mainstream, prevalent, prevailing, rife, established, conventional, traditional, orthodox, accepted.

the common good : COLLECTIVE, communal, community, public, popular, general; shared, combined.

they are far too common : UNCOUTH, vulgar, coarse, rough, boorish, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined; lowly, low-born, low-class, inferior, proletarian, plebeian; informal plebby; Brit. informal common as muck.

unusual, rare, individual, refined.

25B6; noun (Brit. informal) use your common! : See common sense .

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