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cut-and-dried

adjective
variants: also cut-and-dry

Synonyms and Antonyms of cut-and-dried

being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events

  • a cut-and-dried session of the convention just to get required business out of the way
Synonyms of cut-and-dried

average, common, commonplace, everyday, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday
Words Related to cut-and-dried

regular, typical, unextraordinary

familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar

natural

customary, wonted

insignificant, trivial, unimportant

frequent, habitual

expected, predictable
Phrases Synonymous with cut-and-dried

par for the course
Near Antonyms of cut-and-dried

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
Antonyms of cut-and-dried

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

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