Common
Common adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Usage example: just a common house cat but an extraordinary friend
Standard-issue and common are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Standard-issue" instead an adjective "Common".
Standard-issue
Standard-issue adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Usage example: another standard-issue thriller with a man on the run desperately trying to find the baddie who framed him for murder
Common and standard-issue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Common" instead an adjective phrase "Standard-issue".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- familiar and common
- familiar and standard-issue
- normal and common
- normal and standard-issue
- usual and common
- usual and standard-issue
- ordinary and common
- ordinary and standard-issue
- regular and common
- regular and standard-issue
- standard and common
- standard and standard-issue
- average and common
- average and standard-issue
Both words in one sentence
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A common joke regarding the Imperial Guard involves Guardsmen obsessively taking their standard-issue lasrifles everywhere, including to the latrines and, presumably, mass (granted, said mass is conducted by an organization that employs flamethrower-equipped nuns).
Source: Guns in Church - Many of the knights in A Song of Ice and Fire wear distinctive custom-made armor and use distinctive personal weapons rather than any kind of standard-issue equipment... which they wouldn't have had, anyway, being knights, rather than common levies in livery.
Source: Custom Uniform
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Standard-issue and Common. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/common/standard-issue
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