- ordinary
- adj1. 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.n7. 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 ordinaryunusual, 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.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.