ordinary

ordinary
adj
1. usual, conventional, regular, natural, normal, average; typical, general, prevalent, prevailing, common, current, popular; understood, approved, accepted, recognized; customary, wonted, accustomed, habitual, routine, repeated, recurrent; established, acknowledged, ritual, traditional, orthodox, consuetudinary; familiar, known, everyday, standard, Inf. G. I.; known, well-known, set, fixed, cut and dried, predetermined.
2. plain, simple, native, domestic, homespun, garden-variety, run-of-the-mill or -mine, household, commonplace, salt-of-the-earth; middle-class, stereotypical, homely, workday, workaday, vernacular, colloquial, informal, prosaic, pedestrian, plebian, bourgeois, unrefined, provincial, Inf. down-home; unexceptional, undistinguished, insignificant, somewhat inferior, second-rate, indifferent, unimpressive; medium, humdrum, so-so, passable, tolerable, fair; inferior, of no value, worthless, low-bred, low-brow, ill-bred; nameless, ignominious, inglorious, ignoble, Sl. cotton pickin1, Sl. no great shakes, Inf. dime-a-dozen.
3. hackneyed, overdone, dull, stale, tired, stock, cliché; dry, trite, unimaginative, insipid, wishy-washy, tame, banal, tedious, uninspired, Inf. old hat, Inf. pat; oft-repeated, oft met with, expected, predictable, overused, worn-out, well-trodden, in the beaten path.
4. humble, modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unassuming, unostentatious.
5. inconsequential, of little or small or no importance, insignificant, small, minute, trivial, paltry, petty, puny, trifling, piddling, Inf. measly, Sl. small potatoes, Sl. small-time, Inf. bush or minor league, Sl. two-bit.
6. mean, low, vile, cheap, base; coarse, vulgar, poor, shabby, drab, ignoble; uncouth, uncultured.
n
7. average, standard, norm, par; ordinary condition, the common way, the way things are, status quo, the normal order of things; convention, conventional usage, fixed practice, Brit. Inf. the drill; formality, habit, settled way, fashion; usual rut, groove, expected routine, beaten track or path, usual run, wont, standard round.
8. out of the ordinary
unusual, strange, different, singular, curious, quaint, eccentric, outlandish, bizarre, weird, Inf. oddball, Inf. kooky; out of the way, uncommon, unwonted, unfamiliar, unheard of, undreamed of, off the beaten path or track, unexpected, offbeat, stray, rare, unique, Fr. recherche; extraordinary, exceptional, remarkable, wonderful.

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  • Ordinary — Or di*na*ry, a. [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf. F. ordinaire. See {Order}.] 1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. The ordinary forms of law. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • ordinary — [ôrd′ n er΄ē] n. pl. ordinaries [OFr & ML: OFr ordinarie < ML(Ec) ordinarius < L, an overseer, orig., orderly, regular < ordo,ORDER] 1. a) an official having jurisdiction within a specified area by right of the office he or she holds;… …   English World dictionary

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  • ordinary — 1. noun At common law, one who had exempt and immediate jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical. Also a bishop; and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also a commissary or… …   Black's law dictionary

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