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)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- common-or-garden, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, congruent
- Antonyms:
- cream of the crop, deluxe, luxe
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
run-of-the-mill in Indonesian
- ordinary
- biasa
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
- common-or-garden
- typical
- average
- medial
- basic
- bog-standard
- common
- commonplace
- common-and-garden
- congruent
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Antonyms
Forms of run-of-the-mill
| comparative | more run-of-the-mill |
|---|---|
| superlative | most run-of-the-mill |
| alternative form | run of the mill |
| alternative form | run-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
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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