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unexceptional

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of unexceptional

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

the physicist, now regarded as one of the brightest minds in science, was an unexceptional student as a child

Synonyms of unexceptional

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

Words Related to unexceptional

regular, typical, unextraordinary

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

customary, wonted

insignificant, trivial, unimportant

frequent, habitual

expected, predictable

Phrases Synonymous with unexceptional

par for the course

Near Antonyms of unexceptional

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 unexceptional

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

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