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garden-variety
[ gahr-dn-vuh-rahy-i-tee ]
adjective
- common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
Word History and Origins
Origin of garden-variety1
Idioms and Phrases
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]Example Sentences
for Lee is garden-variety disappointment about not having family around is, in Muriel, a more intangible sexual absence she can’t articulate beyond an interest in the appeal of risk.
Musk deprioritized posts with links because he doesn’t want people clicking away from X. They already weren’t clicking, but the fiction that they might click has had a magnetic pull on journalists and garden-variety influencers who see the platform as one spoke in a wheel of content distribution.
Beck and Woods don’t have to dream up something alien when these kinds of garden-variety predators are common.
At times, this approaches the tone of your garden-variety L.A. surfer bro, spouting anecdotes about the benefits of ayahuasca.
This is not garden-variety hypocrisy, however.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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