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adj
- Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
- (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- unimaginative and conformist
- rigidly formal or bound by convention
- conforming with accepted standards
- following accepted customs and proprieties
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
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noun
- (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
- (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
- A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
- (countable) Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
- (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
- (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
- (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
- (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person.
- a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
- a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
- any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers
adj
- Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned.
- Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cosy.
- (Canada, US) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.
- (UK dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
- (UK dialectal, of animals) Domestic; tame.
- (UK dialectal) Personal; private.
- (India) Conservative and family-oriented.
- (UK dialectal) Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.
- without artificial refinement or elegance
- having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- plain and unpretentious
noun
- (figurative) A dull routine.
- (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
- (zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
- a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
verb
- (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
- be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
adj
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- lacking fresh air
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adj
- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
- Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
- (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
noun
- (ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- (now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- (now Scotland, Ireland) The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
- (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
- (now chiefly historical) A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- (law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- (now historical) A penny farthing bicycle.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”).
- a judge of a probate court
- an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
- a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
- the expected or commonplace condition or situation
- (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
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- Boring and unoriginal.
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- (euphemistic) Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
- (rare) Containing corn.
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
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- Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.
- a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home
adj
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
- (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- (card games) Not a trump.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
- Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
- Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
- (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- lacking patterns especially in color
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- not mixed with extraneous elements
- free from any effort to soften to disguise
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noun
- (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
- A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
- An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
- extensive tract of level open land
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- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
noun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
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- (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- Representing the sound of vomiting.
- An expression of mild frustration.
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- To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
- To gently rain.
- To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.
- pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin
- hit lightly
noun
- A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
- (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- A hyperbole: excessiveness.
- insincere pathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
adj
noun
- (art) One whose work is monochromatic or characterized by sameness.
- One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
- (corporate ethics) One who believes a corporation should care only about maximizing shareholder value, and not be concerned with any other stakeholders.
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- Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
- (rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering.
- (figuratively, by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive.
- Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
- Heavy, massive, weighty.
- slow and laborious because of weight
- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
- labored and dull
noun
- Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
- (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
- Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
- matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
- ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
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adj
- (informal) Very boring.
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
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- Tedious; repetitive and boring.
- Ordinary; not new.
- Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
- Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
- belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
- found in the ordinary course of events
- concerned with the world or worldly matters
noun
- (slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
- (fandom slang, as "the mundane") The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
- An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
- (derogatory, satanism) A person who is not a Satanist.
adj
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
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noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
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- Commonplace, ordinary.
- (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- (mathematics) Self-evident.
- (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- of little substance or significance
- concerned with trivialities
- (informal) small and of little importance
noun
- (figurative) A dull routine.
- (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
- (zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
- a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
verb
- (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
- be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
noun
- A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
- (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- A hyperbole: excessiveness.
- insincere pathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
noun
verb
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- Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
- (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
- Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
- matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
- ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
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adj
- Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
- (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- unimaginative and conformist
- rigidly formal or bound by convention
- conforming with accepted standards
- following accepted customs and proprieties
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
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adj
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- (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
- (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
- A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
- (countable) Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
- (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
- (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
- (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
- (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person.
- a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
- a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
- any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers
adj
- Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned.
- Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cosy.
- (Canada, US) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.
- (UK dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
- (UK dialectal, of animals) Domestic; tame.
- (UK dialectal) Personal; private.
- (India) Conservative and family-oriented.
- (UK dialectal) Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.
- without artificial refinement or elegance
- having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- plain and unpretentious
adj
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- lacking fresh air
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- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
- Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
- (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
noun
- (ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- (now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- (now Scotland, Ireland) The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
- (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
- (now chiefly historical) A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- (law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- (now historical) A penny farthing bicycle.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”).
- a judge of a probate court
- an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
- a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
- the expected or commonplace condition or situation
- (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
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- Boring and unoriginal.
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- (euphemistic) Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
- (rare) Containing corn.
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
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- Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.
- a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home
adj
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
- (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- (card games) Not a trump.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
- Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
- Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
- (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- lacking patterns especially in color
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- not mixed with extraneous elements
- free from any effort to soften to disguise
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- (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
- A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
- An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
- extensive tract of level open land
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- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
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- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
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- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
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- (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- Representing the sound of vomiting.
- An expression of mild frustration.
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- To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
- To gently rain.
- To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.
- pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin
- hit lightly
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- (art) One whose work is monochromatic or characterized by sameness.
- One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
- (corporate ethics) One who believes a corporation should care only about maximizing shareholder value, and not be concerned with any other stakeholders.
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- Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
- (rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering.
- (figuratively, by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive.
- Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
- Heavy, massive, weighty.
- slow and laborious because of weight
- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
- labored and dull
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- (informal) Very boring.
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
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- Tedious; repetitive and boring.
- Ordinary; not new.
- Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
- Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
- belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
- found in the ordinary course of events
- concerned with the world or worldly matters
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- (slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
- (fandom slang, as "the mundane") The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
- An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
- (derogatory, satanism) A person who is not a Satanist.
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- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
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- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
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- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
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- Commonplace, ordinary.
- (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- (mathematics) Self-evident.
- (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- of little substance or significance
- concerned with trivialities
- (informal) small and of little importance