English adjective: ordinary | |||
1. | ordinary not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | ||
Samples | Ordinary everyday objects. Ordinary decency. An ordinary day. An ordinary wine. | ||
Similar | 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, unexceptional, unremarkable, workaday | ||
See also | common, usual | ||
Attribute | mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness | ||
Antonyms | extraordinary | ||
2. | ordinary lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | ||
Samples | Average people. The ordinary (or common) man in the street. | ||
Synonyms | average | ||
Similar | common | ||
Antonyms | uncommon | ||
English noun: ordinary | |||
1. | ordinary (person) a judge of a probate court | ||
Broader (hypernym) | judge, jurist, justice | ||
Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
2. | ordinary (state) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | ||
Samples | Not out of the ordinary. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | condition | ||
3. | ordinary (person) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | ||
Broader (hypernym) | clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend | ||
4. | ordinary (artifact) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | ||
Synonyms | ordinary bicycle | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel | ||
5. | ordinary (artifact) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | ||
Broader (hypernym) | armorial bearing, bearing, charge, heraldic bearing | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bar sinister, bend, bend dexter, bend sinister, fess, fesse | ||
Domain category | heraldry | ||