adj.
Common; unremarkable: situation comedies and other garden-variety television fare.
garden-variety
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gar·den-va·ri·e·ty (gär'dn-və-rī'ĭ-tē) |
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adjective
- Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See good/bad, usual/unusual.
| Idioms: garden variety |
Ordinary, common, as in I don't want anything special in a VCR--the garden variety will do. This term alludes to a common plant as opposed to a specially bred hybrid. [Colloquial; 1920]
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