Synonyms for Ordinary:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • ordinary.
  •average (adjective)
  • mid,
  • boilerplate,
  • middling,
  • unexceptional,
  • standard,
  • mezzo,
  • nowhere,
  • stereotype,
  • run-of-the-mill,
  • halfway,
  • everyday,
  • midmost,
  • middle-of-the-road,
  • dominant,
  • predominant,
  • common,
  • median.
  •average; not distinctive (adjective)
  • modest,
  • no great shakes,
  • unremarkable,
  • second-rate,
  • household,
  • prosaic,
  • plastic,
  • simple,
  • generic,
  • unnoteworthy,
  • unpretentious.
  •banal (adjective)
  • more nothing,
  • more noplace,
  • wishywashy,
  • more pabulum,
  • tripest,
  • un original,
  • wishy washy,
  • more cornball,
  • most cornball,
  • un-original,
  • most zero,
  • most noplace,
  • wishy-washy,
  • most cornfed,
  • most nothing,
  • more zero,
  • more cornfed,
  • most pabulum,
  • triper.
  •cheap (adjective)
  • cruddy,
  • rinky-dink,
  • two bit,
  • glitzy,
  • no bargain,
  • tawdry,
  • catchpenny,
  • no good,
  • small time,
  • secondrate,
  • scroungy,
  • junky,
  • rubbishy,
  • shoddy,
  • rinkydink,
  • second rate.
  •common, regular (adjective)
  • general,
  • wonted,
  • settled,
  • public,
  • frequent,
  • prevailing,
  • habitual,
  • quotidian,
  • established,
  • traditional,
  • routine.
  •commonplace (adjective)
  • matter-of-course,
  • most matter of course,
  • most characterless,
  • more matter of course,
  • most dime-a-dozen,
  • more dime a dozen,
  • more prevalent,
  • more workaday,
  • more matter-of-course,
  • more characterless,
  • most obvious,
  • more dime-a-dozen,
  • obvious,
  • most worn out,
  • un noteworthy,
  • un-noteworthy,
  • starch,
  • un-interesting,
  • most dime a dozen,
  • most matter-of-course,
  • most workaday,
  • starchest,
  • un interesting,
  • more unnoteworthy,
  • Starcher,
  • most unnoteworthy.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • most tralatitious,
  • most ritual,
  • pre-dominant,
  • pre dominant,
  • more tralatitious,
  • wellknown,
  • well known,
  • more ritual,
  • buttondown.
  •customary (adjective)
  • under stood,
  • re-cognized,
  • more stipulated,
  • most stipulated,
  • prescriptive,
  • more regulation,
  • under-stood,
  • in groove,
  • uni-versal,
  • most regulation,
  • more frequent,
  • re cognized,
  • uni versal,
  • standard operating procedure.
  •cut-and-dried (adjective)
  • prearranged,
  • in the cards,
  • cut and dried.
  •daily (adjective)
  • circadian,
  • once a day,
  • from day to day,
  • diurnal,
  • once daily,
  • most often,
  • day by day.
  •dull (adjective)
  • repetitive,
  • out-of-date,
  • repetitious,
  • earthbound,
  • prosy,
  • uninspiring,
  • usual thing,
  • unexciting,
  • out of date,
  • big yawn,
  • longwinded,
  • oft-repeated.
  •everyday (adjective)
  • un-remarkable,
  • most whitebread,
  • more whitebread,
  • un remarkable.
  •fair (adjective)
  • most fairish,
  • in different,
  • up standard,
  • de cent,
  • de-cent,
  • more fairish,
  • FAIRER,
  • in-different.
  •familiar (adjective)
  • more familiar,
  • un-sophisticated,
  • un sophisticated,
  • re cognizable,
  • repeated,
  • most recognizable,
  • more recognizable,
  • re-cognizable,
  • recognizable,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • un ceremonious.
  •general (adjective)
  • ex tensive.
  •habitual (adjective)
  • recurrent,
  • disciplined.
  •homely (adjective)
  • dis-gusting,
  • un-alluring,
  • un alluring,
  • most unaesthetic,
  • dis gusting,
  • more unalluring,
  • more unaesthetic,
  • most unalluring,
  • Unalluring,
  • un-aesthetic,
  • un aesthetic.
  •homespun (adjective)
  • more handcrafted,
  • un-refined,
  • most handcrafted,
  • un refined,
  • handmade.
  •household (adjective)
  • most family,
  • more family,
  • more domiciliary,
  • most domiciliary.
  •humble (adjective)
  • reverential,
  • Low-born,
  • supplicatory,
  • trivial,
  • proletarian,
  • timorous,
  • self-conscious,
  • unassuming,
  • menial,
  • unambitious,
  • low-ranking.
  •humdrum (adjective)
  • more treadmill,
  • un varied,
  • more white-bread,
  • most white-bread,
  • mono-tone,
  • most unvaried,
  • most white bread,
  • more monotone,
  • most toneless,
  • most treadmill,
  • most monotone,
  • more unvaried,
  • most plodding,
  • un-varied,
  • more white bread,
  • most banausic,
  • mono tone,
  • more plodding,
  • more banausic,
  • more toneless.
  •ignoble (adjective)
  • dis-graceful,
  • in famous,
  • most peasant,
  • dis graceful,
  • dis-honorable,
  • de graded,
  • scurviest,
  • more peasant,
  • de-graded,
  • de generate,
  • dis honorable,
  • scurvier,
  • de-generate.
  •inconspicuous (adjective)
  • low key,
  • Unconspicuous,
  • unemphatic,
  • low-profile.
  •inferior (adjective)
  • junker,
  • low-grade,
  • low-rent,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • most inferior,
  • low-quality.
  •informal (adjective)
  • more low pressure,
  • most free-and-easy,
  • most throwaway,
  • most low-pressure,
  • unfussiest,
  • un official,
  • more lowpressure,
  • most improv,
  • more low-pressure,
  • un constrained,
  • most low pressure,
  • more free-and-easy,
  • un fussiest,
  • un-restrained,
  • un-fussiest,
  • more free and easy,
  • more throwaway,
  • lowpressure,
  • in-formal,
  • un-conventional,
  • un-fussy,
  • most lowpressure,
  • down home,
  • most free and easy,
  • in formal,
  • un-fussier,
  • un conventional,
  • folksy,
  • un-official,
  • un fussy,
  • unfussier,
  • un fussier,
  • more improv.
  •insipid (adjective)
  • in-sipid,
  • in nocuous,
  • in-nocuous,
  • more ho-hum,
  • in sipid,
  • more nebbish,
  • more ho hum,
  • more hohum,
  • most nebbish,
  • most hohum,
  • most ho hum,
  • most ho-hum.
  •lay (adjective)
  • non professional,
  • non clerical,
  • more unsacred,
  • most nonspecialist,
  • lay,
  • more nonspecialist,
  • non specialist,
  • in-expert,
  • un-sacred,
  • most nonclerical,
  • more nonclerical,
  • most unsacred,
  • un sacred,
  • in expert.
  •literal (adjective)
  • to the letter,
  • unexaggerated,
  • not figurative,
  • unerring,
  • undeviating,
  • the letter.
  •low-grade (adjective)
  • low grade,
  • lowgrade.
  •low-quality (adjective)
  • lowquality.
  •lowly (adjective)
  • cast down,
  • lowborn,
  • unwashed.
  •mean (adjective)
  • down-at-heel,
  • down at heel.
  •medial (adjective)
  • medial.
  •mediocre (adjective)
  • suburban,
  • mundane,
  • of poor quality.
  •medium (adjective)
  • parrer,
  • parrest.
  •middle-class (adjective)
  • middleclass.
  •moderate (adjective)
  • piddling.
  •natural (adjective)
  • in-generate,
  • more natal,
  • most ingenerate,
  • in-voluntary,
  • in-born,
  • most natal,
  • un-acquired,
  • in voluntary,
  • un controlled,
  • un-controlled,
  • more ingenerate,
  • in born,
  • more unacquired,
  • uni-form,
  • most unacquired,
  • in generate,
  • uni form,
  • un acquired.
  •nondescript (adjective)
  • unclassifiable,
  • unclassified.
  •open-and-shut (adjective)
  • nailed down,
  • undisguised,
  • Cinched,
  • open and shut,
  • self-explanatory,
  • clear cut,
  • sewn up,
  • clear as a bell,
  • iced,
  • in the bag.
  •overused (adjective)
  • over-worked,
  • over worked,
  • over used,
  • over-used.
  •pedestrian (adjective)
  • truistic.
  •plain (adjective)
  • more plain-featured,
  • most plain featured,
  • plainfeatured,
  • hard the eyes,
  • more plainfeatured,
  • de-formed,
  • plain featured,
  • most plain-featured,
  • hard on eyes,
  • de formed,
  • more plain featured,
  • most plainfeatured,
  • hard eyes.
  •plebeian (adjective)
  • most working-class,
  • most working class,
  • un cultivated,
  • most workingclass,
  • more workingclass,
  • workingclass,
  • un-cultivated,
  • more working-class,
  • more working class.
  •poor (adjective)
  • SUBPAR.,
  • poorer,
  • subnormal,
  • niggardly.
  •popular (adjective)
  • more demanded,
  • most adopted,
  • most demanded,
  • more adopted,
  • more embraced,
  • most embraced.
  •prevailing (adjective)
  • most predominating,
  • more all embracing,
  • most all embracing,
  • most preponderating,
  • pre dominating,
  • allembracing,
  • most all-embracing,
  • pre vailing,
  • pre-vailing,
  • more preponderating,
  • more all-embracing,
  • worldwide,
  • most allembracing,
  • all embracing,
  • pre-dominating,
  • more predominating.
  •prosaic (adjective)
  • yawner,
  • most lusterless,
  • more lusterless,
  • diddliest,
  • prosest,
  • yawnest,
  • diddlier.
  •regular (adjective)
  • steady,
  • rhythmic,
  • epochal,
  • orthodox,
  • canonical,
  • cyclical,
  • universal,
  • constant,
  • metronomic,
  • monotonous,
  • continual,
  • periodic,
  • Predominating,
  • chronic.
  •respectable (adjective)
  • be coming,
  • Redoubted,
  • well-thought-of,
  • be fitting.
  •routine (adjective)
  • more seasonal,
  • most seasonal.
  •second-class (adjective)
  • second-class,
  • second class.
  •so-so (adjective)
  • SOSO,
  • so so.
  •stereotyped (adjective)
  • worn thin,
  • played out,
  • mass-produced,
  • well-worn.
  •stereotypical (adjective)
  • stereo typical,
  • stereo-typical.
  •stock (adjective)
  • stocker.
  •succinct (adjective)
  • stark,
  • casual,
  • honest,
  • straightforward,
  • unadorned,
  • candid,
  • intelligible,
  • uncluttered,
  • unpoetical,
  • frank,
  • clear,
  • bald,
  • outspoken,
  • blunt,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • direct.
  •tolerable (adjective)
  • be-arable,
  • sustainable,
  • be arable,
  • more unexceptionable,
  • unexceptionable,
  • most unexceptionable,
  • more sustainable,
  • most sustainable,
  • un-impeachable,
  • un-exceptionable,
  • un exceptionable,
  • un impeachable.
  •trite (adjective)
  • usedup,
  • more used up,
  • most used up,
  • more mildewed,
  • most mildewed,
  • more cliche,
  • most used-up,
  • most ready made,
  • ready made,
  • most cliche,
  • more used-up,
  • motheaten,
  • most usedup,
  • chainest,
  • most ready-made,
  • more usedup.
  •typical (adjective)
  • re-presentative,
  • most patterned,
  • more patterned,
  • re presentative.
  •uncomely (adjective)
  • not much for looks,
  • not much to look at,
  • short on looks.
  •unconspicuous (adjective)
  • more having,
  • un-conspicuous,
  • most having,
  • un conspicuous,
  • Having.
  •uneventful (adjective)
  • unfateful.
  •unexciting (adjective)
  • long winded,
  • un exciting,
  • un-exciting.
  •unimaginative (adjective)
  • un imaginative,
  • un-creative,
  • un-imaginative,
  • un creative,
  • un romantic,
  • un-romantic.
  •uninspired (adjective)
  • unimpressed,
  • unmotivated,
  • phoned in.
  •unlovely (adjective)
  • un loveliest,
  • un-lovelier,
  • un-lovely,
  • un lovelier,
  • un lovely,
  • un-loveliest.
  •unmotivated (adjective)
  • un motivated,
  • un-motivated.
  •unnoticeable (adjective)
  • unnoticeable.
  •unwashed (adjective)
  • un-washed,
  • de-classed,
  • de classed,
  • un washed.
  •used to (adjective)
  • at home with,
  • more acclimated,
  • most acclimated.
  •usual (adjective)
  • grindest.
  •vernacular (adjective)
  • plebian,
  • more plebian,
  • most plebian.
  •warmed-over (adjective)
  • warmed over,
  • warmedover.

• n.

  •
  • A-list,
  • chief,
  • B-list,
  • below,
  • born,
  • genteel,
  • above,
  • elite.
  •
  • surprise.
  •
  • good.
  •
  • rule.
  •cut-and-dry (noun)
  • cut-and-dry.
  •ordinary (noun)
  • ordinary bicycle,
  • run-of-the-mine.
  •table d'hote (noun)
  • Ordinaries,
  • communal table.

• v.

  •ornamented (verb)
  • elaborate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flesh and blood,
  • ordinarily,
  • overblown,
  • colloquial,
  • popularize,
  • vox pop,
  • routinely,
  • second nature,
  • formulaic,
  • cookie-cutter,
  • garden-variety,
  • middle-sized,
  • normality,
  • unmemorable,
  • no-frills,
  • normalcy,
  • unnatural,
  • commonly,
  • rough-and-ready,
  • demotic,
  • day-to-day.
  •
  • popularly,
  • pro forma,
  • The,
  • middle,
  • populist,
  • garden,
  • vanilla,
  • unadventurous,
  • mainstream,
  • anonymous,
  • norm,
  • undistinguished,
  • human.
  •
  • crude,
  • rude.
  •
  • basic.
  •
  • folk,
  • primitive.
  •
  • indifferent,
  • private.
  •
  • straight.
  •
  • right.
  •routine
  • matter of course.

Paraphrases for Ordinary:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    everyday, rank-and-file, mundane, normal.
  • Proper noun, singular
    normal.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    extraordinary.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    DER, conventional, customary, day-to-day, mere, traditional, typical, daily, non-political, vulgar, unusual, trivial, proper, generic, general-, easy, lambda, non-proprietary, uncomplicated, shared, citizens, widespread, exceptional, decent.
  • Proper noun, singular
    gets.
  • Noun, plural
    Disabilities, ratings, notes, courts, nations, Adults, Schools, Ordinaires.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    notes.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    simple, straightforward, commonplace, habitual, banal.

Antonyms for Ordinary:

• adj.

  • all
    extraordinary.
  • average; not distinctive
    sophisticated, smart, exceptional, intricate, complex, embellished, strange, decorated, unclear, intelligent, difficult, ornate, superior, complicated.
  • common, regular
    remarkable, specific, unusual, original, special, different, unknown, uncommon, irregular, abnormal, particular, unconventional, distinctive.
  • Other antonyms:
    lacking, superb, outstanding, excellent, number one, swell, outrageous, unfamiliar, superlative, intermittent, oddball, signal, nifty, howling, unacceptable, tip-top, prime, first-rate, first class, unsatisfactory, striking, insufficient, capital, unprecedented, recherche, supreme, outre, top-notch, maximum, seldom, prominent, A1, top, kooky, novel, distinguished, way out, conspicuous, preeminent, par excellence, wanting, scarce, freakish, inadequate, optimum, unorthodox, optimal, salient, sensational, sterling, deficient, stellar, nonconformist, idiosyncratic.

Hypernym for Ordinary:

• n.

  • artifact
    bend, bend sinister, fess, bar sinister, Bend Dexter, fesse.

Hyponym for Ordinary:

• n.

  • artifact
    heraldic bearing, bearing, armorial bearing, charge.
  • person
    judge, justice, man of the cloth, clergyman, jurist, reverend.
  • state
    condition.