ordinary

• OK
• a dime a dozen
• acceptable
• adequate
• all right
• alright
• average
• ceaseless
• common
• common or garden
• commonplace
• constant
• continual
• continuous
• customary
• cut-and-dried
• cut-and-dry
• de rigueur
• decent
• endemic
• everyday
• exemplar
• expected
• fair
• familiar
• fine
• frequent
• garden-variety
• general
• golden mean
• good
• habitual
• homely
• household
• incessant
• indifferent
• insignificant
• mandatory
• mean
• median
• mediocre
• medium
• middle
• middling
• minimal
• moderate
• modest
• natural
• nice
• norm
• normal
• obligatory
• okay
• par
• par for the course
• passable
• perennial
• plain
• plain-Jane
• popular
• predictable
• presentable
• prevailing
• prevalent
• prosaic
• quotidian
• rampant
• reasonable
• recurrent
• regular
• repeated
• representative
• respectable
• routine
• rule
• run
• run-of-mine
• run-of-the-mill
• run-of-the-mine
• satisfactory
• second-class
• second-rate
• so-so
• standard
• standard-issue
• status quo
• sufficient
• sufficing
• tolerable
• trivial
• typical
• ubiquitous
• unceasing
• unexceptional
• unextraordinary
• unimportant
• universal
• unremarkable
• usual
• vulgar
• wonted
• workaday

• A1
• Kafkaesque
• aberrant
• abnormal
• abnormality
• anomalous
• anomaly
• atypical
• bizarre
• capital
• choice
• classic
• conspicuous
• curious
• deficient
• deviation
• distinguished
• eccentric
• excellent
• exception
• exceptional
• exquisite
• extraordinary
• fabulous
• fantastic
• fantastical
• far-out
• first-class
• first-rate
• freak
• freakish
• funny
• grand
• great
• idiosyncratic
• inadequate
• infrequent
• insufficient
• intermittent
• irregular
• kookie
• kooky
• lacking
• marvellous
• marvelous
• matchless
• maximum
• nifty
• nonconformist
• notable
• novel
• number one
• occasional
• odd
• oddball
• offbeat
• optimal
• optimum
• out-of-the-way
• outrageous
• outstanding
• par excellence
• peculiar
• peerless
• phenomenal
• preeminent
• prime
• prominent
• quaint
• queer
• rare
• rarity
• salient
• scarce
• seldom
• sensational
• signal
• singular
• special
• splendid
• sporadic
• stellar
• sterling
• strange
• striking
• superb
• superior
• superlative
• supreme
• swell
• terrific
• tip-top
• top
• top-notch
• unacceptable
• uncommon
• unconventional
• unexampled
• unfamiliar
• unique
• unmatched
• unnatural
• unorthodox
• unparalleled
• unprecedented
• unsatisfactory
• unsurpassed
• untypical
• unusual
• wacky
• wanting
• way-out
• weird
• whacky
• wild

• noun
  1. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
  2. Something ordinary or regular.
• adjective
  1. (of a judge) 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. Bad or undesirable.

• The event was far from ordinary, it was truly spectacular.
• She wore an ordinary dress but carried herself with elegance.
• It’s an ordinary day, perfect for a walk in the park.
• His talent goes beyond the ordinary expectations.
• The restaurant serves delicious food in an ordinary setting.

ubiquitous

abased

daily

earthbound

habitual

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