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Synonyms of common in English:
common
See definition of common
adjective
1‘he gained a massive following among the common folk’
SYNONYMS
ordinary, normal, typical, average, unexceptional, run-of-the-mill, plain, simple
2‘this booklet answers the most common questions asked’
SYNONYMS
usual, ordinary, customary, habitual, familiar, regular, frequent, repeated, recurrent, routine, everyday, daily, day-to-day, quotidian, standard, typical
conventional, stock, stereotyped, predictable, commonplace, mundane, run-of-the-mill
literary wonted
ANTONYMS
unusual
3‘it is a common belief that elephants have long memories’
SYNONYMS
widespread, general, universal, popular, mainstream, prevalent, prevailing, rife, established, well established, conventional, traditional, traditionalist, orthodox, accepted
in circulation, in force, in vogue
ANTONYMS
rare
4‘they work together for the common good’
SYNONYMS
collective, communal, community, public, popular, general
shared, joint, combined
ANTONYMS
private, individual
5‘the fishermen's wives were far too common for my mother’
SYNONYMS
uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross
lowly, low, low-born, low-ranking, low-class, inferior, humble, ignoble, proletarian, plebeian
informal plebby, slobbish, cloddish, clodhopping
British informal common as muck
archaic baseborn
ANTONYMS
refined, noble
