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ordinary
Synonyms and Antonyms of ordinary
- It was a perfectly ordinary and undistinguished shirt.
par for the course
curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer
aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical
fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal
bizarre, far-out, outrageous, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild
eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox
conspicuous, notable, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented
- The pizza at that restaurant is just ordinary—it's nothing to write home about.
A1, capital, distinguished, excellent, exceptional, fine, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, matchless, maximum, number one (also No. 1), optimal, optimum, outstanding, par excellence, peerless, preeminent, prime, sensational, special, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supreme, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notch
unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed
deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting
- an ordinary hairstyle for boys of that age
a dime a dozen
Synonym Discussion of ordinary
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- a common error
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- lacked common honesty
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- common manners
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- an ordinary pleasant summer day
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- a very ordinary sort of man
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- plain hard-working people
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- a familiar melody
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- a writer of popular romances
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- souvenirs designed to appeal to the vulgar taste
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