EXTRA ORDINARY Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

extraordinary

adjective

ik-ˈstrȯr-də-ˌner-ē

Definition of extraordinary

as in unusual

being out of the ordinary the marine is being cited for extraordinary courage

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as in uncommon

noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced no one noticed anything extraordinary about the airline passenger

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Recent Examples of extraordinary The Seminoles opened a massive new football center in 2025, part of an extraordinary facilities arms race that has transformed college football. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026 But at the very top end, the market continues to produce extraordinary results for bottles with exceptional rarity and provenance. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Through artifacts spanning 5,000 years, the exhibition constructs an extraordinary history of fashion and the body—material, carnal, vulnerable, seductive, devotional, fragmented—and its transpositions into various expressive languages. — Judith Clark, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026 Those yields are extraordinary by recent standards but less so over a longer horizon. — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for extraordinary

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Adjective

Voters are deeply concerned about income disparity but also skeptical about the unusual approach of the billionaire tax.

— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
The incident adds an unusual detail to the growing record of autonomous AI behavior.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of unusual

Adjective

Suicide, unfortunately, is not uncommon among the young, and in fact, several sources have noted a recent rash of these tragedies in the Aurora community.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
Bell said doctors told him that those symptoms are not uncommon for athletes who have returned from ACL injuries.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of uncommon

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The machines typically used to compress fuel must deliver enormous bursts of energy with exceptional precision.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
The formula’s lead ingredient, soybean ferment extract, is an exceptional resurfacing agent—improving skin’s texture, tone, and radiance without any harsh side effects.

— Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of exceptional

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The reunion becomes even stranger when Constance prepares for a dark holiday celebration, with Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) from Cult helping decorate a black Christmas tree topped with a pentagram.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
The public wiki case offers a particularly strange example of the problem.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of strange

Adjective

This unique propagation gives rise to wave trajectories with directional rotation, or handedness, which dictates whether paths rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Season two goes a little differently than season one, because the music exec in charge of casting the show (Ashley Padilla) is being lightly blackmailed by two … unique candidates (Jane Wickline and new cast member Grace Reiter).

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of unique

Adjective

And that is a very funny, exploitable premise on its surface.

— Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
On Standby follows Sagit, a 33-year-old airport security screener whose brutally honest view of the world and chaotic personal life turn even the most ordinary interactions into painfully funny disasters.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of funny

Adjective

Sarah Patton, a Compass agent familiar with the buildings, says that a few years ago, when hundreds of units were being marketed downtown, some buildings were making deals, but that’s rare.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2026
Since then researchers have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus, which is known to cause cancers such as nasal pharyngeal cancers and some forms of lymphoma, is also linked to some stomach cancers and some rarer lymphomas, Clifford says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of rare

Adjective

Beck was playing a shabby, malnourished musician living in a shack who acts as an emissary of a weird celebrity cult.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
But, in a weird sort of way, that approach advances the point critics have about Williams.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of weird

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