UNSURPRISING Antonyms

• belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

• having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• common to or shared by two or more parties

• commonly encountered

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• of or associated with the great masses of people

• of low or inferior quality or value

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• to be expected; standard

• 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

• considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

• conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal

• in accordance with scientific laws

• being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development

• something regarded as a normative example

• forming a right angle

• 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

• capable of being foretold

• 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

• causing surprise or wonder or amazement