common

Meaning of common

adjective
  1. occurring, found, or done often; prevalent.
    salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings
    common misspellings
    it's common for children to have middle ear infections
  2. shared by, coming from, or done by two or more people, groups, or things.
    the two republics' common border
    problems common to both communities
  3. showing a lack of taste and refinement supposedly typical of the lower classes; vulgar.
    she's so common
  4. (in Latin, Dutch, and certain other languages) of or denoting a gender of nouns that are conventionally regarded as masculine or feminine, contrasting with neuter.
  5. (of a syllable) able to be either short or long.
  6. (of a crime) of lesser severity.
    common assault
noun
  1. a piece of open land for public use.
    we spent the morning tramping over the common looking for flowers
  2. common sense.
  3. (in the Christian Church) a form of service used for each of a group of occasions.
  4. a person's right over another's land, e.g. for pasturage or mineral extraction.

Middle English: from Old French comun (adjective), from Latin communis .

Information about common

  • The plural form of common is: commons.
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Hyphenation of common

com-mon

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • common is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

common synonyms

Meaning mutual:

mutual

Meaning usual:

usual

Meaning vernacular:

vernacular, vulgar

Meaning plebeian:

plebeian, vulgar, unwashed

Meaning coarse:

coarse, uncouth, vulgar

Meaning park:

park, commons, green

Meaning with no special or distinctive features; normal:

ordinary

Meaning according to the customs or usual practices associated with a particular society, place, or set of circumstances:

customary

Meaning regular; usual:

habitual

Meaning often encountered or experienced; common:

familiar

Meaning used, done, or happening on a habitual basis; usual:

regular

Meaning (of a person) doing something often; habitual:

frequent

Meaning done or occurring again several times in the same way:

repeated

Meaning occurring often or repeatedly:

recurrent

Meaning performed as part of a regular procedure rather than for a special reason:

routine

Meaning commonplace:

everyday

Meaning done, produced, or occurring every day or every weekday:

daily

Meaning ordinary or everyday; mundane:

quotidian

Meaning used or accepted as normal or average:

standard

Meaning having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing:

typical

Meaning based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed:

conventional

Meaning (of a product or type of product) usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale:

stock

Meaning viewed or represented as a stereotype:

stereotyped

Meaning able to be predicted:

predictable

Meaning not unusual; ordinary:

commonplace

Meaning lacking interest or excitement; dull:

mundane

Meaning habitual; usual:

wonted

Meaning found or distributed over a large area or number of people:

widespread

Meaning affecting or concerning all or most people or things; widespread:

general

Meaning relating to or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases:

universal

Meaning (of a belief or attitude) held by the majority of the general public:

popular

Meaning belonging to or characteristic of the mainstream:

mainstream

Meaning widespread in a particular area or at a particular time:

prevalent

Meaning existing at a particular time; current:

prevailing

Meaning (especially of something undesirable) of common occurrence; widespread:

rife

Meaning having existed or done something for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted:

established

Meaning existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established:

traditional

Meaning advocating the upholding or maintenance of tradition:

traditionalist

Meaning (of a person) not independent-minded; conventional and unoriginal:

orthodox

Meaning generally believed or recognized to be valid or correct:

accepted

Meaning having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level:

rough

Meaning rough and bad-mannered; coarse:

boorish

Meaning offensively impolite or bad-mannered:

rude

Meaning not having or showing good manners; rude:

impolite

Meaning not appropriate for or typical of a well-bred, decorous woman:

unladylike

Meaning not appropriate to or behaving like a gentleman:

ungentlemanly

Meaning (of a place or people) not socially, culturally, or morally advanced:

uncivilized

Meaning lacking refined worldly knowledge or tastes:

unsophisticated

Meaning not processed to remove impurities or unwanted elements:

unrefined

Meaning hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts:

philistine

Meaning relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something:

primitive

Meaning (of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled:

savage

Meaning resembling or characteristic of a brute:

brutish

Meaning rough or clumsy and unintelligent:

oafish

Meaning very rude or coarse; vulgar:

gross

Meaning low in status or importance; humble:

lowly

Meaning ranking below other people or things in importance or class:

low

Meaning lower in rank, status, or quality:

inferior

Meaning of low social, administrative, or political rank:

humble

Meaning not honourable in character or purpose:

ignoble

Meaning relating to the proletariat:

proletarian

Meaning lazy and having low standards of cleanliness:

slobbish

Meaning foolish, awkward, or clumsy:

cloddish, clodhopping

Meaning of low birth or origin:

baseborn

common antonyms

Meaning not habitually or commonly occurring or done:

unusual

Meaning (of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often:

rare

Meaning with impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing:

refined

Meaning belonging by rank, title, or birth to the aristocracy:

noble

Translation of common

Words that rhyme with common

Ammon, Hammon, Mammon, McCammon, Scammon, ammon, backgammon, gammon, mammon, psammon, trammon, Lemmon, lemmon, persimmon, simmon, Common, Roscommon, discommon, encommon, intercommon, overcommon, ultrauncommon, uncommon, assummon, foresummon, resummon, summon, Plynlymmon

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