ordinary in English

adjective

1

with no special or distinctive features; normal.

he sets out to depict ordinary people

synonyms: usual, normal, standard, typical, common, customary, habitual, everyday, regular, routine, day-to-day

2

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

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

1

what is commonplace or standard.

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, that do not vary from day to day.

Even so, between 1592 and 1595 Byrd published his three settings of the ordinary of the mass, the masses for three, four and five voices.

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.

adjective

usual, normal, standard, typical, common, customary, habitual, everyday, regular, routine, day-to-day
average, normal, run-of-the-mill, standard, typical, middle-of-the-road, conventional, unremarkable, unexceptional, workaday, undistinguished, nondescript, colorless, commonplace, humdrum, mundane, unmemorable, pedestrian, prosaic, quotidian, uninteresting, uneventful, dull, boring, bland, suburban, hackneyed, garden-variety, plain-vanilla, nothing to write home about, no great shakes
average

Use "ordinary" in a sentence

1. These are just ordinary residences expressing the ordinary splendor of cities.

2. I want to talk about something really ordinary, just ordinary sand.

3. Never despise ordinary things - the ordinary in yourself or in others.

4. Contagiously Ordinary, Osgood, Ohio

5. The " ordinary man in the street" or " ordinary men and women" - very patronising. Who are the people who are so different and not ordinary?

6. When ordinary Crepuscular rays …

7. OrdinAry, customAry), or both (e.g

8. This was no ordinary rain.

9. You don't think I'm ordinary?

10. It all appears achingly ordinary .

11. Ordinary citizens are in danger

12. I was always pretty ordinary.

13. Ordinary housewives cook very economically.

14. TAnzanite is no ordinary gemstone

15. I am ordinary yet unique.

16. C.C. Baxter, Ordinary Premium Accounting.

17. He's just an ordinary penguin.

18. Carbon differs from ordinary charcoal.

19. Violent crimes involving ordinary people.

20. Unusual, Anomaly, Out of the ordinary

21. Abnormal: being out of the ordinary

22. Anomalous: being out of the ordinary

23. Have remained abolitionist for ordinary crimes

24. 15 I'm an ordinary office worker.

25. He can sweeten the ordinary things.

26. Able Seaman (AB) Ordinary Seaman (OS)

27. 10 I am ordinary yet unique.

28. The magician shows you something ordinary.

29. Many ordinary rocks (feldspars) are Aluminosilicates

30. Atypical: being out of the ordinary

31. 18 He is in ordinary dress.

32. 12 It's just an ordinary camera.

33. Aberrant: being out of the ordinary

34. But it is no ordinary storm.

35. So why is everything so ordinary?

36. This girl's allergies are not ordinary.

37. Clearly, hemoglobin is no ordinary molecule.

38. No, she was no ordinary beast.

39. "Each high-vote ordinary share is entitled to 15 votes versus one vote for each ordinary share, " Fuller explains.

40. Phyllis Cyphers is not your ordinary agent

41. We are enlisted in no ordinary task.

42. Well, sometimes, ordinary is a welcome respite.

43. He isn't in step with ordinary voters.

44. The high house price unnerve ordinary residents.

45. 2 words related to Banausic: formality, ordinary

46. All other communications shall be ordinary mail

47. Those were not just ordinary people there.

48. Looks like your ordinary, standard baton, right?

49. I've noticed nothing out of the ordinary.

50. He's an ordinary bloke, despite being famous.