unexceptional

un·ex·cep·tion·al

adj \-shnəl, -shə-n^əl\

Definition of UNEXCEPTIONAL

: not out of the ordinary : commonplace

Examples of UNEXCEPTIONAL

1. As an actor he was unexceptional, but he had a beautiful singing voice.
2. <the physicist, now regarded as one of the brightest minds in science, was an unexceptional student as a child>

First Known Use of UNEXCEPTIONAL

1806

Related to UNEXCEPTIONAL

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