Common definition

Common as an adjective

1. belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

   "for the common good"

2. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

   "the common man"

3. common to or shared by two or more parties

   "a common friend"

   Same sense: mutual

4. commonly encountered

   "a common (or familiar) complaint"

   Same sense: usual

5. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

   "common parlance"

   Same sense: vulgar, vernacular

6. of or associated with the great masses of people

   "the common people in those days suffered greatly"

   Same sense: vulgar, unwashed, plebeian

7. of low or inferior quality or value

   "produced … the common cloths used by the poorer population"

   Same sense: coarse

8. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

   "behavior that branded him as common"

   Same sense: rough-cut, vulgar, coarse, uncouth

9. to be expected; standard

   "common decency"

Common as a noun

10. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

    Same sense: park, green, commons

Synonyms and antonyms

• mutual
• usual
• vulgar
• vernacular
• unwashed
• plebeian
• coarse
• rough-cut
• uncouth
• park definition
• green definition
• commons

Opposites: individual, uncommon.

How to say common

Common has 2 syllables and rhymes with uncommon. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with common

• uncommon

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