garden-variety

[gahr-dn-vuh-rahy-i-tee] /ˈgɑr dn vəˌraɪ ɪ ti/

adjective

common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.

Origin

1925-30

Examples from the web for garden-variety

There was the usual outbreak of garden-variety seasonal influenza but not of the new strain.
Many were beans-not garden-variety ones, but trees of the same family, similar to modern mimosas.
Rather, he argues that it probably wouldn't work as well as garden-variety smallpox.
The experiment also crucially raised our awareness of the threats posed by designer bugs and garden-variety pathogens alike.
But the garden-variety alcoholism is not being treated at all.
Whether or not automated computing tools overtake the more garden-variety helpers, though, the new center's role should be key.
It has the same charter as every garden-variety third-world dictatorship:The leaders make up the laws to suit themselves.
And the trajectory begins with garden-variety corn ethanol.
garden-variety depressives aren't the only ones getting a boost from happy pills.
Even garden-variety vaccines are problematic right now.

Slang definitions & phrases for garden-variety

adjective

Of the usual kind; ordinary; run-of-the-mill (1928+)