standard

²standard

adj

Definition of STANDARD

1

a : constituting or conforming to a standard especially as established by law or custom <standard weight> b : sound and usable but not of top quality <standard beef>

2

a : regularly and widely used, available, or supplied <standard automobile equipment> b : well-established and very familiar <the standard opera>

3

: having recognized and permanent value <a standard reference work>

4

: substantially uniform and well established by usage in the speech and writing of the educated and widely recognized as acceptable <standard pronunciation is subject to regional variations>

— stan·dard·ly adverb

Examples of STANDARD

1. a window of standard width
2. The movie was a pretty standard romantic comedy.
3. The word is considered standard.

First Known Use of STANDARD

1567

Related to STANDARD

Synonyms: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday

Antonyms: abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual

Related Words: regular, typical, unextraordinary; familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar; natural; customary, wonted; insignificant, trivial, unimportant; frequent, habitual; expected, predictable

Near Antonyms: 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

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