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common, ordinary, plain, familiar, popular, vulgar mean generally met with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual. common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence
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a common error
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lacked common honesty
and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness.
//common manners ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular order of things.
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an ordinary pleasant summer day
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a very ordinary sort of man plain is likely to suggest homely simplicity.
//plain hard-working people familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized.
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a familiar melody popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups.
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a writer of popular romances vulgar, otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations (as of inferiority or coarseness).
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souvenirs designed to appeal to the vulgar taste
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective and Noun
Middle English familier, from Anglo-French, from Latin familiaris, from familia — see family entry 1
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