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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, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. Archaic base. 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, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard. See better.
  9. Known widely and unfavorably: infamous, notorious. See knowledge.

common - noun

  1. The common people. 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, third estate. See over.
  2. A tract of cultivated land belonging to and used by a community: green. See group.