common

common is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as verb, noun, intransitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. verb. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
2. verb. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
3. verb. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
4. verb. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
5. verb. Profane; polluted.
6. verb. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
7. noun. The people; the community.
8. noun. An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.
9. noun. The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
10. intransitive verb. To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
11. intransitive verb. To participate.
12. intransitive verb. To have a joint right with others in common ground.
13. intransitive verb. To board together; to eat at a table in common.
14. noun. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

    "they went for a walk in the park"

    Synonyms: commons, green, park

15. adjective. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

    "the common man"

    "a common sailor"

16. adjective. belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

    "for the common good"

    "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"

17. adjective. commonly encountered

    "a common (or familiar) complaint"

    "the usual greeting"

    Synonyms: usual

18. adjective. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

    "common parlance"

    "a vernacular term"

    Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar

19. adjective. of or associated with the great masses of people

    "the common people in those days suffered greatly"

    "behavior that branded him as common"

    Synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar

20. adjective. to be expected; standard

    "common decency"

21. adjective. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

    "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"

    "behavior that branded him as common"

    Synonyms: coarse, uncouth, vulgar

22. adjective. common to or shared by two or more parties

    "a common friend"

    "the mutual interests of management and labor"

    Synonyms: mutual

23. adjective. of low or inferior quality or value- Shakespeare

    "of what coarse metal ye are molded"

    "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

    Synonyms: coarse

Synonyms

commons, green, park, usual, vernacular, vulgar, plebeian, unwashed, coarse, uncouth, mutual

Common word forms

commons, commoned, commoner, commonly, commonest, commoning, commonize, commonable, commonness

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