English > extraordinary: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Beyond what is ordinary or usual / usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable. |
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| Examples | - "extraordinary authority"
- "an extraordinary achievement"
- "her extraordinary beauty"
- "enjoyed extraordinary popularity"
- "an extraordinary capacity for work"
- "an extraordinary session of the legislature"
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| Attribute of | ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity | The quality of being commonplace and ordinary |
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| Narrower | bonzer | remarkable or wonderful |
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| exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing | Far beyond what is usual / usual in magnitude or degree |
| extraordinaire | Extraordinary in a particular capacity |
| fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous | extraordinarily good or great |
| frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous | extreme / extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact |
| great | remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude / magnitude or effect |
| one, right | Used informally as an intensifier |
| phenomenal | Exceedingly or unbelievably great |
| preternatural, uncanny | Surpassing the ordinary or normal |
| pyrotechnic | Suggestive of fireworks |
| rare, uncommon | marked by an uncommon quality |
| remarkable, singular | unusual or striking |
| some | remarkable |
| special | For a special service or occasion |
| wonderworking | Performing or able to perform wonders or miracles |
| See also | impressive | making a strong or vivid impression |
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| incomparable, uncomparable | Such that comparison is impossible |
| superior | Of high or superior quality or performance |
| uncommon | not common or ordinarily encountered |
| unusual | not usual or common or ordinary |
| Opposite | ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree |
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| Spanish | extraordinaria, extraordinario |
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| Catalan | extraordinari |
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| Nouns | extraordinariness | the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered |
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