garden variety

Adjective

Meaning

garden variety (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Ordinary, common, or unexceptional.
I can usually recover from a garden variety cold with rest and fluids.

garden-variety (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of garden variety

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

garden-variety

Synonyms

common average normal typical household ordinary usual everyday generic vanilla workday workaday averageness white bread common-or-garden
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Antonyms

galvanic rare ideal explosive extraordinary exotic
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Examples

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage. Robert Penn Warren

And sure, the online furor is partly just a product of both the ever-intensifying pop culture hype cycle and garden variety click-chasing. Source: Internet

Beyond "garden variety treachery" what this something was, cannot he decided based on this briefcase full of disorganized facts and pregnant speculation. Source: Internet

“But for most garden variety freaks, it’s a word like, you know, I don’t know, ‘pineapple’. Source: Internet

In Mr. Cole I see a garden-variety journalist who is capitalizing on his own ethnicity as a ready and clever means to boost himself to a platform or, as it seems, pulpit. Source: Internet

In many cases, these weeds (or wild edibles, as some call them) possess greater nutritional value than our garden-variety greens, roots, and berries. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

garden umbrella garden valerian Garden Valley garden vegetable garden vetch garden violet