| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Something, as a type, number, quantity, or degree, that represents a midpoint between extremes on a scale of valuation: mean3, median, medium, norm, par. See USUAL. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of moderately good quality but less than excellent: acceptable, adequate, all right, common, decent, fair, fairish, goodish, moderate, passable, respectable, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerable. Informal : OK, tidy. See GOOD. 2. Commonly encountered: common, commonplace, general, normal, ordinary, typical, usual. See SURPRISE. 3. Being of no special quality or type: common, 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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