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ready-made

n. a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase; "their apartment was furnished with ready-mades"

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ready-made

adj. made for purchase and immediate use

ready-made

adj. commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes"

cliched, ready-made

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

conventional

adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

commonplace

adj. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"

affable, amiable, cordial, genial

adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"

ceremonious, conventional

adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

accustomed

adj. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"

received

adj. widely accepted as true or worthy; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist

familiar, unstudied

adj. "lectured in a familiar style"

characteristic

adj. typical or distinctive; "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra"

friendly

adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"

uninspired

adj. having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement; "the production was professional but uninspired"

predictable

adj. capable of being foretold

matter-of-fact, prosaic

adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"

uninteresting

adj. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"

common

adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"

humdrum, monotonous

adj. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

ordinary

adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

boughten, store-bought

adj. purchased; not homemade; "my boughten clothes"; "a store-bought dress"

manufactured

adj. produced in a large-scale industrial operation

mass-produced

adj. produced in quantity often by assembly-line techniques

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

imitative, copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

custom-made, custom-built

n. an item made to the customer's specifications

custom-made, custom

adj. made according to the specifications of an individual

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