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garden-variety

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of garden-variety

1 being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
  • The once-powerful hurricane eventually abated into just a garden-variety tropical storm.
Synonyms of garden-variety

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

regular, typical, unextraordinary

familiar, homely, plain, popular, vulgar

natural

customary, wonted

insignificant, trivial, unimportant

frequent, habitual

expected, predictable
Phrases Synonymous with garden-variety

par for the course
Near Antonyms of garden-variety

curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer

aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical

rare, scarce

fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal

bizarre, far-out, outrageous, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild

eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox

freak, freakish

conspicuous, notable, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented

singular, unique, unparalleled
Antonyms of garden-variety

abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual
2 often observed or encountered
  • The bakery's extravagant creations are not your garden-variety wedding cakes.
Synonyms of garden-variety

common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, household, ordinary, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usual
Words Related to garden-variety

normal, regular, standard

de rigueur, mandatory, obligatory

general, universal

ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, incessant, unceasing

endemic, popular, prevailing, prevalent, rampant

perennial, recurrent, repeated
Phrases Synonymous with garden-variety

a dime a dozen
Near Antonyms of garden-variety

aberrant, abnormal, irregular, unnatural

intermittent, occasional, sporadic
Antonyms of garden-variety

extraordinary, infrequent, rare, seldom, uncommon, unfamiliar, unusual

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