| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A tract of cultivated land belonging to and used by a community: green. See GROUP. 2. 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, ruck1, third estate. See OVER. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. 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. 2. Belonging to, shared by, or applicable to all alike: communal, conjoint, general, joint, mutual, public. See GROUP. 3. Commonly encountered: average, commonplace, general, normal, ordinary, typical, usual. See SURPRISE. 4. Occurring quite often: everyday, familiar, frequent, regular, routine, widespread. See USUAL. 5. Belonging or relating to the whole: general, generic, universal. See SPECIFIC. 6. Of low or lower quality: inferior, low-grade, low-quality, mean2, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard. See BETTER. 7. Lacking high station or birth: baseborn, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean2, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. Archaic : base2. See OVER. 8. Known widely and unfavorably: infamous, notorious. See KNOWLEDGE. 9. 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.
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