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ordinary
/'ɔrdənɜri/
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  1. adjective
    lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
    "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

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    average common
  2. noun
    an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

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    ordinary bicycle
    type of:
    bike bicycle cycle wheel
  3. noun
    a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
  4. noun
    a judge of a probate court
    type of:
    jurist judge justice
  5. noun
    (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
  6. adjective
    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"

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    workaday average banausic characterless common commonplace cut-and-dried cut-and-dry everyday fair indifferent mediocre middling mine run mundane nondescript quotidian routine run-of-the-mill run-of-the-mine so-so undistinguished unexceptional unremarkable
    Opposite:
    extraordinary
  7. noun
    the expected or commonplace condition or situation
    "not out of the ordinary"
    type of:
    condition
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