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Synonyms for garden variety
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : gahr-dn-vuh-rahy-i-tee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɑr dn vəˌraɪ ɪ ti |
Top 10 synonyms for garden variety Other synonyms for the word garden variety
- accustomed
- actual
- arid
- authoritative
- average
- banausic
- blah
- boiler plate
- boilerplate
- boring
- bromidic
- canonical
- characterless
- chronic
- clean
- clichéd
- colorless
- commonplace
- corny
- customary
- cut-and-dried
- daily
- dead
- definitive
- diddly
- dim
- dime a dozen
- dime-a-dozen
- domestic
- drab
- dreary
- dry
- dull
- established
- everyday
- expected
- factual
- fair
- fair to middling
- familiar
- familiar tune
- fixed
- flat
- formulaic
- frequent
- garden
- garden variety
- garden-variety
- general
- generic
- grind
- habitual
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- homespun
- household
- humble
- humdrum
- imitative
- indifferent
- inferior
- informal
- insignificant
- insipid
- intermediate
- intimate
- irksome
- known
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- low
- lowly
- lusterless
- mainstream
- matter-of-course
- matter-of-fact
- mean
- mechanical
- mediocre
- medium
- middle of the road
- middle-of-the-road
- middling
- moderate
- modest
- monotone
- monotonous
- mundane
- native
- natural
- no great shakes
- normal
- nothing
- nothing special
- nothing to write home about
- nowhere
- obvious
- official
- old hat
- ordinary
- orthodox
- p
- pabulum
- passable
- pedestrian
- per diem
- plain
- plastic
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- plodding
- popular
- practicable
- practical
- prevailing
- prevalent
- prosaic
- prose
- prosy
- proverbial
- public
- quotidian
- recognizable
- recognized
- regular
- regulation
- repeated
- repetitious
- rife
- routine
- run of the mill
- run-of-the-mill
- second-rate
- set
- settled
- simple
- so-so
- square
- stale
- standard
- staple
- starch
- stereotyped
- stock
- tame
- tedious
- threadbare
- tiresome
- tolerable
- toneless
- traditional
- treadmill
- trite
- typic
- typical
- unceremonious
- undistinguished
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- unexciting
- unimaginative
- unimpressive
- uninspired
- uninspiring
- uninteresting
- unmemorable
- unnoteworthy
- unoriginal
- unpretentious
- unrefined
- unremarkable
- unsophisticated
- unvaried
- usual
- vanilla
- vapid
- vernacular
- wearisome
- white-bread
- whitebread
- widespread
- wonted
- workaday
- worn-out
- yawn
- zero
Définition of garden variety
- As in ordinary : adj average; not distinctive
- As in average : adj normal, typical
- As in prosaic : adj unimaginative
- As in run-of-the-mill : adj average
- As in standard : adj regular, approved
- As in undistinguished : adj ordinary
- As in unexceptional : adj ordinary
- As in usual : adj common, typical
- As in vulgar : adj common, general
- As in formulaic : adj ordinary
- As in garden-variety : adj ordinary
- As in unremarkable : adj ordinary
- As in commonplace : adj usual, everyday
- As in everyday : adj common
- As in familiar : adj common, well-known
- As in humdrum : adj boring, uneventful
- As a garden variety for its season, it can hardly be surpassed.
- Extract from : « The Peaches of New York » by U. P. Hedrick
- They're considerably like the common or garden variety of dog.
- Extract from : « West Wind Drift » by George Barr McCutcheon
- The fruit itself is quite as good as the garden variety, for cultivation has added little to the native virtues of the raspberry.
- Extract from : « The Evolutionist at Large » by Grant Allen
- Thus Jack became again for a while the common or garden variety of school-boy, and he enjoyed the change.
- Extract from : « Acton's Feud » by Frederick Swainson
- This is an escape from cultivation—a garden variety (laciniata) known as the Cut-leaved or Parsley-leaved Elder.
- Extract from : « Wayside and Woodland Trees » by Edward Step
- It is a field rather than a garden variety; though the green pods are tender and well flavored.
- Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
- As a garden variety, it is of little value, though the young pods are crisp and tender.
- Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
- A flower of mystery, of wonderment to children, was the Evening Primrose; I knew the garden variety only with intimacy.
- Extract from : « Old-Time Gardens » by Alice Morse Earle
- I am that garden variety, and it took the exercising of many heart interests to toughen my cardiac organ.
- Extract from : « The Golden Bird » by Maria Thompson Daviess
- Such points gave him an air of distinction, and marked him out as quite different from the common or garden variety of cats.
- Extract from : « The Story Girl » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Antonyms for garden variety
- abnormal
- aesthetic
- alien
- aloof
- artistic
- atypical
- bright
- business
- busy
- cold
- complex
- complicated
- cool
- creative
- decent
- decorated
- different
- difficult
- distant
- distinctive
- eccentric
- embellished
- eventful
- exceptional
- exciting
- extraordinary
- extreme
- fashionable
- foreign
- ignorant
- imaginative
- inconstant
- industrial
- infrequent
- inoffensive
- intelligent
- interesting
- intricate
- irregular
- lively
- new
- nice
- occasional
- original
- ornate
- outstanding
- peculiar
- polite
- rare
- refined
- remarkable
- reserved
- smart
- sophisticated
- special
- strange
- superior
- thinking
- unacquainted
- unapproachable
- unclear
- uncommon
- unconventional
- undistinguished
- unexpected
- unfamiliar
- unfriendly
- unknowledgeable
- unknown
- unorthodox
- unremarkable
- unsteady
- unusual
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