ordinary

1 being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events it was a perfectly ordinary and undistinguished shirt Synonyms of ordinary average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday Words Related to ordinary regular, typical, unextraordinary; familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar; natural; customary, wonted; insignificant, trivial, unimportant; frequent, habitual; expected, predictable Phrases par for the course Near Antonyms of ordinary curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer; aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical; rare, recherché, scarce; fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal; bizarre, far-out, Kafkaesque, outrageous, outré, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild; eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox; freak, freakish; conspicuous, notable, novel, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented; singular, unique, unparalleled Antonyms of ordinary abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual

2 of average to below average quality the pizza at that restaurant is just ordinary—it's nothing to write home about Synonyms of ordinary common, fair, indifferent, medium, middling, mediocre, passable, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine (or run-of-mine), second-class, second-rate, so-soWords Related to ordinary acceptable, adequate, all right, alright, decent, OK (or okay), reasonable, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficing, tolerable; moderate, modest; presentable, respectable; minimal, unexceptional; fine, good, niceNear Antonyms of ordinary A1, capital, choice, classic, distinguished, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fabulous, fantastic, fine, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, marvelous (or marvellous), matchless, maximum, nifty, 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

3 often observed or encountered an ordinary hairstyle for boys of that age Synonyms of ordinary common or garden [chiefly British], commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, common, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usualWords Related to ordinary normal, regular, standard; de rigueur, mandatory, obligatory; general, universal; ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, incessant, unceasing; endemic, popular, prevailing, prevalent, rampant; perennial, recurrent, repeatedNear Antonyms of ordinary aberrant, abnormal, irregular, unnatural; intermittent, occasional, sporadicAntonyms of ordinary extraordinary, infrequent, rare, seldom, uncommon, unfamiliar, unusual