garden variety
garden variety adjective: ordinary, common, or unexceptional.
Adjective
garden variety (not comparable)
- Ordinary, common, or unexceptional.
- I can usually recover from a garden variety cold with rest and fluids.
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- Synonyms:
- common-or-garden, common or garden variety, normal, plain, regular, standard, average, medial, basic, bog-standard
- Antonyms:
- abnormal, exotic, extraordinary, special, specialized, uncommon
Noun
garden variety (plural garden varieties)
- An ordinary, standard kind.
- Synonyms:
- common or garden variety, plain Jane, regular, standard issue
Synonyms of garden variety
- common-or-garden
- common or garden variety
- normal
- plain
- regular
- standard
- average
- medial
- basic
- bog-standard
29 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- common
- commonplace
- common-and-garden
- congruent
- consistent
- conventional
- customary
- everyday
- expected
- improminent
- mundane
- natural
- ordinary
- par for the course
- par
- plain vanilla
- quotidian
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- standard issue
- typical
- unexceptional
- unremarkable
- unstrange
- usual
- vulgar
- wakeaday
- workaday
- plain Jane
Antonyms
Forms of garden variety
| plural | garden varieties |
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Questions about garden variety
- What does garden variety mean?
- Garden variety means ordinary, common, or unexceptional.
- What part of speech is garden variety?
- Garden variety can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near garden variety in the dictionary
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