mindmap root((普通)) common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence: a ~ error; lacked ~ honesty; and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness: his ~ manners shocked her family. ordinary stresses accordance in quality or kind with regular order of things: an ~ pleasant summer day; a very ~ sort of man. plain suggests ordinariness and homely simplicity: she comes from ~, hard-working stock. familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized: a ~ melody. popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups: a hero typically found in ~ fiction. vulgar otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations of inferiority or coarseness: goods designed to appeal to the ~ taste.