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run-of-the-mill

run-of-the-mill adjective: ordinary; not special.

Adjective

run-of-the-mill (comparative more run-of-the-mill, superlative most run-of-the-mill)

  1. (figuratively) Ordinary; not special.
    • This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.
    • The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.1971 November 30, Martin Lapidus, “Class Notes: 62”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 72, page 26

run-of-the-mill meaning in Malayalam and Indonesian

run-of-the-mill in Malayalam

commonplace, ordinary, average
വിശേഷവിധിയായി ഒന്നുമില്ലാത്ത, വിശേഷാലൊന്നുമില്ലാത്ത, സാമാന്യമായ, ശരാശരിയായ, സാധാരണനിലവാരമുള്ള, സാധാരണ

Examples of run-of-the-mill in a sentence

  • For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.1989, Punch, page 55:
  • Who the more run-of-the-mill victims were is unclear, since they are often not named or have no emblem glyphs attached to them.1999, David Drew, The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings, page 284:
  • Someone Great review - another run-of-the-mill romcom from Netflix [title]2019 April 18, Jake Nevins, “Someone Great review - another run-of-the-mill romcom from Netflix”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Synonyms of run-of-the-mill

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Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of run-of-the-mill

Forms of run-of-the-mill

comparativemore run-of-the-mill
superlativemost run-of-the-mill
alternative formrun of the mill
alternative formrun-o'-the-mill

Origin of run-of-the-mill

From 1922; from the fact that product produced by a mill should be uniform and like that of any other similar run.

Questions about run-of-the-mill

What does run-of-the-mill mean?
Run-of-the-mill means ordinary; not special.
What is run-of-the-mill in Malayalam?
Run-of-the-mill in Malayalam is വിശേഷവിധിയായി ഒന്നുമില്ലാത്ത, വിശേഷാലൊന്നുമില്ലാത്ത, സാമാന്യമായ. See Run-of-the-mill meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use run-of-the-mill in a sentence?
For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.
What part of speech is run-of-the-mill?
Run-of-the-mill is an adjective.

Words near run-of-the-mill in the dictionary

  1. run-ins
  2. run-length encoding
  3. run-length encodings
  4. run-o'-the-mill
  5. Run-O-Waters
  6. run-of-the-mill
  7. run-of-the-river
  8. run-off
  9. run-offs
  10. run-on
  11. run-on sentence

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: run-of-the-mill (page history and authors); run-of-the-mill (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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