AUGUSTAN Antonyms

• belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

• having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• common to or shared by two or more parties

• commonly encountered

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• of or associated with the great masses of people

• of low or inferior quality or value

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• to be expected; standard

• a trite or obvious remark

• completely ordinary and unremarkable

• not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• not formal

• used of spoken and written language

• not officially recognized or controlled

• having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere

• low or inferior in station or quality

• inferior in rank or status

• used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

• a contemporary person

• a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

• relating to a recently developed fashion or style

• characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

• ahead of the times

• not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

• a judge of a probate court

• the expected or commonplace condition or situation

• a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

• an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

• (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• one of the common people

• of or associated with the great masses of people

• not refined or processed

• (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth