'ordinary' definitions:
Definition of 'ordinary'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [ant: extraordinary]
adjective
Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, ordinary]
noun
A judge of a probate court
noun
The expected or commonplace condition or situation; "not out of the ordinary"
noun
A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
noun
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel [syn: ordinary, ordinary bicycle]
noun
(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
Synonyms of 'ordinary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a la carte,
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- achievement,
- alerion,
- American plan,
- amicus curiae,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- assessor,
- Attic,
- average,
- azure,
- Babbittish,
- banal,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- barmaster,
- baseborn,
- baton,
- bearings,
- below the salt,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- besetting,
- billet,
- bizarre,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- boardinghouse,
- bordure,
- bourgeois,
- broad arrow,
- cadency mark,
- campy,
- canton,
- central,
- chancellor,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chaste,
- chevron,
- chief,
- circuit judge,
- classic,
- classical,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- cockney,
- common,
- commonplace,
- conformable,
- consuetudinary,
- convention,
- conventional,
- coronet,
- couvert,
- cover,
- cover charge,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- curious,
- current,
- customary,
- demeaning,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- different,
- disadvantaged,
- dominant,
- dorm,
- dormitory,
- doss house,
- dull,
- eagle,
- eccentric,
- epidemic,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- established,
- European plan,
- everyday,
- exceptional,
- expected,
- extraordinary,
- fair,
- falcon,
- familiar,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- flat,
- fleabag,
- fleur-de-lis,
- flophouse,
- frequent,
- frequentative,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garden,
- garden variety,
- garden-variety,
- garland,
- general,
- generally accepted,
- griffin,
- guest house,
- gules,
- gyron,
- habitual,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honor point,
- hospice,
- hostel,
- hostelry,
- hotel,
- household,
- humble,
- humdrum,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- in the shade,
- inescutcheon,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- inn,
- insipid,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- JA,
- judge advocate,
- judge ordinary,
- junior,
- jurat,
- justice in eyre,
- justice of assize,
- kitschy,
- label,
- lay judge,
- legal assessor,
- less,
- lesser,
- lion,
- lodging house,
- low,
- low-camp,
- lowborn,
- lowbred,
- lower,
- lowly,
- lozenge,
- mantling,
- many,
- many times,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- master,
- matter-of-fact,
- mean,
- medial,
- median,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- metal,
- middle-class,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middling,
- military judge,
- minor,
- moderate,
- modest,
- motto,
- mullet,
- mundane,
- natural,
- no great shakes,
- nombril point,
- nonclerical,
- nondescript,
- norm,
- normal,
- normative,
- not rare,
- obtaining,
- octofoil,
- odd,
- of common occurrence,
- offbeat,
- oft-repeated,
- oftentime,
- ombudsman,
- or,
- original,
- orle,
- outlandish,
- pale,
- paly,
- pandemic,
- passable,
- pean,
- peasant,
- peculiar,
- pedestrian,
- pension,
- pheon,
- Philistine,
- picturesque,
- plain,
- plastic,
- plebeian,
- poetryless,
- police judge,
- pop,
- popular,
- posada,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- presiding judge,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- probate judge,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- provincial,
- pub,
- public,
- public house,
- puisne judge,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- purpure,
- quaint,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- quotidian,
- rampant,
- rare,
- received,
- recorder,
- recurrent,
- regnant,
- regular,
- regulation,
- reigning,
- rife,
- roadhouse,
- rooming house,
- rose,
- routine,
- rude,
- ruling,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- running,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-service,
- service,
- servile,
- set,
- shabby-genteel,
- shield,
- simple,
- singular,
- so so,
- spread eagle,
- standard,
- status quo,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- strange,
- striking,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subordinary,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- suburban,
- tavern,
- tenne,
- the common,
- the commonplace,
- the normal,
- the ordinary,
- the usual,
- thick-coming,
- third rank,
- third string,
- third-estate,
- time-honored,
- tincture,
- tiresome,
- torse,
- traditional,
- tressure,
- typical,
- uncommon,
- unconventional,
- underprivileged,
- undistinguished,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexceptional,
- unexpected,
- unfamiliar,
- ungenteel,
- unicorn,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- unique,
- universal,
- unnoteworthy,
- unpoetic,
- unpretentious,
- unrefined,
- unremarkable,
- unromantic,
- unspectacular,
- unusual,
- usual,
- vair,
- vapid,
- vernacular,
- vert,
- vice-chancellor,
- vulgar,
- weird,
- widespread,
- wonted,
- workaday,
- workday,
- wreath,
- yale