Explanation and meaning of ordinary.

ordinary

/'ɔrdənɜri/

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

Similar:

average common
noun
an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
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Similar:

ordinary bicycle

type of:
bike bicycle cycle wheel
noun
a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
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type of:
reverend clergyman man of the cloth
noun
a judge of a probate court
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type of:
jurist judge justice
noun
(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
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type of:
bearing charge armorial bearing heraldic bearing
adjective
not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
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"ordinary everyday objects" "ordinary decency" "an ordinary day" "an ordinary wine"

Similar:

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
noun
the expected or commonplace condition or situation
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"not out of the ordinary"

type of:
condition

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