ordinary
Adjective
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Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree (synset 301677162)
"ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"also:tells us about: mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness - the quality of being commonplace and ordinarysimilar to:
- average, fair, mediocre, middling - lacking exceptional quality or ability
- banausic - (formal) ordinary and not refined
- characterless, nondescript - lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting
- common - to be expected; standard
- commonplace - completely ordinary and unremarkable
- cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry - according to ordinary expectations
- everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday - found in the ordinary course of events
- indifferent, so-so - being neither good nor bad
- mine run, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, undistinguished, unexceptional - not special in any way; lacking distinction
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Lacking special distinction, rank, or status;
Commonly encountered (synset 300488278)"average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"similar to: common - having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usualsame as: average
Noun
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A judge of a probate court (synset 110402079)
referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
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The expected or commonplace condition or situation (synset 113965795)
"not out of the ordinary"is a type of: condition - a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
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A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death (synset 110402179)
is a type of: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
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An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel (synset 103859444)
is a type of: bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel - a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedalssame as: ordinary bicycle
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(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields (synset 103859254)
referred to in: heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogiesis a type of: armorial bearing, bearing, charge, heraldic bearing - heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shieldsubtypes:
- bend, bend dexter - diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- fess, fesse - (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
- bar sinister, bend sinister - a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left
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