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Synonyms & 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 for garden-variety
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- 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
Antonyms for garden-variety
2
often observed or encountered
- the bakery's extravagant creations are not your garden-variety wedding cakes
Synonyms for garden-variety
- common,
- common or garden
- [chiefly British],
- commonplace,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- frequent,
- household,
- ordinary,
- quotidian,
- routine,
- ubiquitous,
- usual
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The first known use of garden-variety was in 1928
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