unexceptional
un·ex·cep·tion·al
adjective \-shnəl, -shə-nəl\: not unusually good, interesting, etc. : not exceptional
Full Definition of UNEXCEPTIONAL
: not out of the ordinary : commonplace
Examples of UNEXCEPTIONAL
- As an actor he was unexceptional, but he had a beautiful singing voice.
- <the physicist, now regarded as one of the brightest minds in science, was an unexceptional student as a child>
First Known Use of UNEXCEPTIONAL
1806
Related to UNEXCEPTIONAL
- Synonyms
- average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, ordinary, unremarkable, usual, workaday
- Antonyms
- abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual
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