Synonyms and Antonyms of common
1
often observed or encountered
- horse ranches are a common sight in that part of the state
common or garden [chiefly British], commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usual
normal, regular, standard
de rigueur, mandatory, obligatory
general, universal
ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, incessant, unceasing
endemic, popular, prevailing, prevalent, rampant
perennial, recurrent, repeated
2
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
- just a common house cat but an extraordinary friend
average, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday
regular, typical, unextraordinary
familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar
natural
customary, wonted
insignificant, trivial, unimportant
frequent, habitual
expected, predictable
curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer
aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical
rare, recherché, scarce
fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal
bizarre, far-out, Kafkaesque, outrageous, outré, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild
eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox
freak, freakish
conspicuous, notable, novel, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented
singular, unique, unparalleled
3
belonging or relating to the whole
- facts of common knowledge
