USUALNESS Synonyms

• a trite or obvious remark

• completely ordinary and unremarkable

• not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• following accepted customs and proprieties

• (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

• unimaginative and conformist

• conforming with accepted standards

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

• rigidly formal or bound by convention

• in accordance with convention or custom

• commonly used or practiced; usual

• well known or easily recognized

• within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange

• a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another

• a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard

• (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly

• having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship

• commonly used or practiced; usual

• in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

• existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation

• existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical

• (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone

• (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related

• someone regarded as certain to succeed

• a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

• (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

• functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies

• unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

• being talented through inherited qualities

• free from artificiality

• being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning

• expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common

• not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

• a judge of a probate court

• the expected or commonplace condition or situation

• a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

• an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

• (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles

• the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate

• an unvarying or habitual method or procedure

• a short performance that is part of a longer program

• a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

• found in the ordinary course of events

• conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind

• established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence

• conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

• a board measure = 1980 board feet

• the value behind the money in a monetary system

• an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)

• any distinctive flag

• commonly used or supplied

• regularly and widely used or sold

• exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category

• of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing

• conforming to a type

• occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure

• commonly encountered