anticlimax |
a disappointingly weak or ordinary conclusion or event, following events or statements that build expectations for something powerful or moving. [1/3 definitions] |
average |
a usual amount or kind; something that is ordinary. [2/3 definitions] |
banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
breathy |
of a voice, softened or otherwise altered in timbre by more than ordinary expiration of breath. [1/2 definitions] |
common |
(pl.) the mass of ordinary people, esp. those without titles of nobility. [1/9 definitions] |
commonplace |
ordinary; not special. [2 definitions] |
common sense |
ordinary good judgment that is part of a person's intelligence or that is learned through experience. |
common stock |
ordinary capital shares of a corporation that often provide dividends and confer voting privileges, but that place their owners' claims, in the event the corporation liquidates, below those of holders of preferred stocks or bonds. |
contrabassoon |
a bassoon that is larger than the ordinary bassoon and an octave lower in pitch; double bassoon. |
conventional |
commonplace; ordinary; unimaginative. [1/3 definitions] |
decipher |
to change from a code into ordinary language. [1/2 definitions] |
decode |
to change from code into ordinary language. |
different |
not ordinary; unusual. [1/4 definitions] |
dim |
to switch (automotive vehicle headlights) from high intensity or position to ordinary intensity. [1/9 definitions] |
dissociation |
in a human being, the abnormal separation of a group of mental activities from ordinary consciousness, as in one afflicted with amnesia or multiple personalities. [1/2 definitions] |
dramatic |
out of the ordinary; exciting. [1/2 definitions] |
eccentric |
not behaving or thinking in an ordinary or accepted way; odd; peculiar. [1/2 definitions] |
everyday |
ordinary or common. |
Everyman |
(usu. l.c.) the common or ordinary person, esp. when typifying the entire human race. [1/2 definitions] |
exceptional |
different, unusual, or out of the ordinary. [1/2 definitions] |
exclude |
to prevent from enjoying ordinary rights or privileges; bar. [1/2 definitions] |