ordinary

Meaning

Noun

1. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
2. (obsolete) A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
3. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
4. (historical) A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
5. (obsolete) Something ordinary or regular.
6. (historical) Something ordinary or regular.
7. (archaic, historical) Something ordinary or regular.
8. Something ordinary or regular.
9. Something ordinary or regular.
10. (Ireland, Scotland) Something ordinary or regular.
11. (historical) Something ordinary or regular.
12. Something ordinary or regular.
13. (alt-of) Something ordinary or regular.
14. (obsolete) A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
15. (especially) A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.

Adj

1. Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
2. Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
3. Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
4. (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.

Synonyms

common

usual

regular

normal

commonplace

average

plain

mediocre

general

customary

everyday

simple

familiar

conventional

routine

habitual

medium

vulgar

indifferent

banal

unremarkable

trivial

humdrum

ordinary bicycle

easily obtained

workaday

universal

casual

run-of-the-mill

prosaic

primary

pedestrian

obvious

natural

moderate

standard

mean

lowly

middling

homely

humble

informal

in vain

median

mundane

popular

quotidian

same

stock

trite

true

typical

undistinguished

unexceptional

unspectacular

used to

wonted

run-of-the-mine

liberal

frequent

mad

matter-of-fact

free

🆓

lacking rank

forgettable

false

mere

extra

mischief

earthy

monotonous

motionless

be common

mutual

earthly

drab

normalcy

obscene

daily

ordinariness

original

peaceful

custom

periodic

constant

platitude

plebeian

poor

ordinaire

prevalent

communal

commonness

public

quiet

vulgaris

real

reasonable

recurrent

colloquial language

relaxed

☺️

rough

colloquial

clay

merely formal

secular

sensible

silent

🔇

boring

simple-hearted

slangy

so-so

over all

straight

tavern

tranquil

trashy

run-of-mine

boredom

hardly out of ordinary

just another

unaffected

uncareful

uncomplicated

actual

uneducated

uneventful

consuetudinal

unexciting

unimportant

uninspired

uninteresting

beaten

unlovely

unnecessary

unnoticeable

unoriginal

unornamented

unpicturesque

unpretentious

basic

unsophisticated

accustomed

untrained

use

common-or-garden

useless

averageness

usualness

vacant

vanilla

anonymous

well-balanced

white

wont

not important

always

worldly

worthless

wrong

Demotic

gross

habit

gratis

plain-looking

worldy

generally

idle

frivolous

inexperienced

natural thing

in general

inn

insignificant

in the past

being average

lackluster

lacklustre

level

lewd

Translations

ordinaire

gewöhnlich

ordinario

gewoon

común

alltäglich

banal

commun

normal

normal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɔːdɪnəɹi/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).