Ordinary Meaning and Definition

Word: Ordinary

How to pronounce: ˈɔːdnrɪ

Adjective

Definitions:

1. With no special or distinctive features; normal.

Example sentences: "He sets out to depict ordinary people"

2. (especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by delegation.

Example sentences: "Should this be the case, an ordinary judge is not allowed to disregard the national legislation but is bound to refer it to the Constitutional Court."

Noun

Definitions:

1. What is commonplace or standard.

Example sentences: "Their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary"

2. A person, especially a judge, exercising authority by virtue of office and not by delegation.

3. Those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day.

4. Any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, and saltire).

5. A meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn.

6. Another term for penny-farthing

Synonyms:

common

usual

commonplace

familiar

quotidian

mediocre

unremarkable

unexceptional

middling

indifferent

passable

customary

private soldier

common soldier

regular

routine

banal

trivial

average

medium

everyday

workaday

normal

standard

frequent

Antonyms:

extraordinary

unusual

outstanding

strange

exceptional

special

particular

unordinary

weird

Derivations:

ordinarily

ordinariness

ordinal

ordination

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Ordinary in Other Languages...

Spanish: Ordinario

German: Gewöhnlich

French: Ordinaire

Italian: Ordinario

Turkish: Sıradan