English Explanatory Dictionary

common-or-garden

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. ordinary, standard.

Word forms

common-or-garden common or garden

Etymology

An extension of the practice of naming domestic – and therefore non-exotic – plants as common or garden, such as common lavender/garden lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).

Synonyms

customary mundane typical average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional everyday expected garden variety improminent natural normal ordinary par for the course plain plain vanilla quotidian regular routine run-of-the-mill standard standard issue unexceptional unremarkable unstrange usual vulgar wakeaday workaday

Related words

common or garden variety garden variety
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