ordinary

1. 1.

   not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

   “ordinary everyday objects”

   “ordinary decency”

   “an ordinary day”

   “an ordinary wine”

   Antonymsextraordinary

   Similaraveragebanausiccharacterlesscommoncommonplacecut-and-driedeverydayindifferent
2. 2.

   lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

   “average people”

   “the ordinary (or common) man in the street”

   Synonymsaverage

   Similarcommon

Other forms of ordinary

plural

ordinaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ordinary

What does ordinary mean?

ordinary means "a judge of a probate court". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ordinary?

ordinary has 4 syllables: or-di-nar-y. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹdəˌnɛɹi/.

What is another word for ordinary?

Close synonyms include ordinary bicycle, average. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ordinary?

The recorded antonyms are extraordinary.

Is ordinary a common word?

ordinary is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ordinary?

41 words rhyme with ordinary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.