unexotic

Examples

• All

• The restaurant served unexotic dishes like meatloaf and mashed potatoes, which reminded him of home.

• I guess triangles of peanut butter and jelly on white bread with the crust cut off were about as unexotic as you could get.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Perhaps this stint in the hospital would be a turning point; perhaps the fancy woman would vanish back to Steelyard Lane or Binns Road, or whichever unexotic lair she'd sprung from.

  Fiction book (2002)

• After years of travel, she realized that living in an unexotic small town felt more comforting than a bustling city.

Synonyms

C

commonplace

vsunexotic

54 3.4

Ordinary and not special or new

is used when ordinary appearance connects to local familiarity rather than novelty

U

unremarkable

vsunexotic

20 3.5

Being ordinary and not interesting

is about being ordinary without strange or unfamiliar traits in a local area

U

unexceptional

vsunexotic

3 4.4

Not special or impressive, just ordinary

is used when something is ordinary because it fits a local or familiar scene

U

unextraordinary

vsunexotic

1 4.0

Not special or exciting

is used for things that are ordinary due to being common in a place

N

nonexceptional

vsunexotic

5.3

Not special or unusual

is about being ordinary because it is familiar to a specific place

N

nonspecial

vsunexotic

4.6

Not having special or unique qualities

is about being ordinary because it feels familiar and typical for a place

Antonyms

U

unusual

∞ 2.2

Not common and different from what people expect

E

exotic

237 4.8

Unusual and interesting because it comes from another country or is different from what people know

How Exotic

exotic

237 4.8

foreign

481 3.4

unusual

∞ 2.2

unexotic

4.2

familiar

793 1.0

ordinary

683 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology