English > ordinary: 7 senses > adjective 1Meaning | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree. |
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Examples | - "ordinary everyday objects"
- "ordinary decency"
- "an ordinary day"
- "an ordinary wine"
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Attribute of | ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity | The quality of being commonplace and ordinary |
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Narrower | average, fair, mediocre, middling | Lacking exceptional quality or ability |
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banausic | (formal) ordinary and not refined |
characterless, nondescript | lacking distinct / distinct / distinct or individual characteristics / characteristics |
common | To be expected |
commonplace | Completely ordinary and unremarkable |
cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry | According to ordinary expectations |
everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday | Found in the ordinary course of events |
indifferent, so-so | Neither good nor bad |
run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, mine run, unexceptional, undistinguished | not special in any way |
See also | common | Having no special distinction or quality |
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usual | Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure |
Opposite | extraordinary | Beyond what is ordinary or usual / usual |
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Spanish | ordinario |
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Nouns | ordinariness | the quality of being commonplace and ordinary |
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Adverbs | ordinarily | under normal conditions |
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