common

Adjective

• to be expected; standard
  • common decency
    

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  • he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind
    
  • behavior that branded him as common
    
  • an untutored and uncouth human being
    
  • an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy
    
  • appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
    
  • the vulgar display of the newly rich
    

• of low or inferior quality or value
  • of what coarse metal ye are molded- Shakespeare
    
  • produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population
    

• of or associated with the great masses of people
  • the common people in those days suffered greatly
    
  • behavior that branded him as common
    
  • his square plebeian nose
    
  • a vulgar and objectionable person
    
  • the unwashed masses
    

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • common parlance
    
  • a vernacular term
    
  • vernacular speakers
    
  • the vulgar tongue of the masses
    
  • the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
    

• commonly encountered
  • a common (or familiar) complaint
    
  • the usual greeting
    

• common to or shared by two or more parties
  • a common friend
    
  • the mutual interests of management and labor
    

• having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
  • the common man
    
  • a common sailor
    
  • the common cold
    
  • a common nuisance
    
  • followed common procedure
    
  • it is common knowledge that she lives alone
    
  • the common housefly
    
  • a common brand of soap
    

• belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
  • for the common good
    
  • common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community
    

Noun

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
  • they went for a walk in the park
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  coarse , rough-cut , uncouth , vulgar , plebeian , unwashed , vernacular , usual , mutual , park , commons , green
• Antonyms: 
  uncommon , individual , single