What is another word for ordinary?
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɔːdɪnəɹi], [ ˈɔːdɪnəɹi], [ ˈɔː_d_ɪ_n_ə_ɹ_i]
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Similar words for ordinary:
- all (adjective)
- average (adjective)
- average; not distinctive (adjective)
- banal (adjective)
- cheap (adjective)
- common, regular (adjective)
- commonplace (adjective)
- conventional (adjective)
- customary (adjective)
- cut-and-dried (adjective)
- daily (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- everyday (adjective)
- fair (adjective)
- familiar (adjective)
- general (adjective)
- habitual (adjective)
- homely (adjective)
- homespun (adjective)
- household (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- humdrum (adjective)
- ignoble (adjective)
- inconspicuous (adjective)
- inferior (adjective)
- informal (adjective)
- insipid (adjective)
- lay (adjective)
- literal (adjective)
- low-grade (adjective)
- low-quality (adjective)
- lowly (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- medial (adjective)
- mediocre (adjective)
- medium (adjective)
- middle-class (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- natural (adjective)
- nondescript (adjective)
- open-and-shut (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overused (adjective)
- pedestrian (adjective)
- plain (adjective)
- plebeian (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- popular (adjective)
- prevailing (adjective)
- prosaic (adjective)
- regular (adjective)
- respectable (adjective)
- routine (adjective)
- second-class (adjective)
- so-so (adjective)
- stereotyped (adjective)
- stereotypical (adjective)
- stock (adjective)
- succinct (adjective)
- tolerable (adjective)
- trite (adjective)
- typical (adjective)
- uncomely (adjective)
- unconspicuous (adjective)
- uneventful (adjective)
- unexciting (adjective)
- unimaginative (adjective)
- uninspired (adjective)
- unlovely (adjective)
- unmotivated (adjective)
- unnoticeable (adjective)
- unwashed (adjective)
- used to (adjective)
- usual (adjective)
- vernacular (adjective)
- warmed-over (adjective)
- cut-and-dry (noun)
- ordinary (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- table d'hote (noun)
- ornamented (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- routine
Synonyms for Ordinary:
adj.
• all (adjective) • 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.
- modest,
- no great shakes,
- unremarkable,
- second-rate,
- household,
- prosaic,
- plastic,
- simple,
- generic,
- unnoteworthy,
- unpretentious.
- 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.
- cruddy,
- rinky-dink,
- two bit,
- glitzy,
- no bargain,
- tawdry,
- catchpenny,
- no good,
- small time,
- secondrate,
- scroungy,
- junky,
- rubbishy,
- shoddy,
- rinkydink,
- second rate.
- general,
- wonted,
- settled,
- public,
- frequent,
- prevailing,
- habitual,
- quotidian,
- established,
- traditional,
- routine.
- 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.
- most tralatitious,
- most ritual,
- pre-dominant,
- pre dominant,
- more tralatitious,
- wellknown,
- well known,
- more ritual,
- buttondown.
- 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.
- repetitive,
- out-of-date,
- repetitious,
- earthbound,
- prosy,
- uninspiring,
- usual thing,
- unexciting,
- out of date,
- big yawn,
- longwinded,
- oft-repeated.
- more familiar,
- un-sophisticated,
- un sophisticated,
- re cognizable,
- repeated,
- most recognizable,
- more recognizable,
- re-cognizable,
- recognizable,
- un-ceremonious,
- un ceremonious.
- dis-gusting,
- un-alluring,
- un alluring,
- most unaesthetic,
- dis gusting,
- more unalluring,
- more unaesthetic,
- most unalluring,
- Unalluring,
- un-aesthetic,
- un aesthetic.
- reverential,
- Low-born,
- supplicatory,
- trivial,
- proletarian,
- timorous,
- self-conscious,
- unassuming,
- menial,
- unambitious,
- low-ranking.
- 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.
- dis-graceful,
- in famous,
- most peasant,
- dis graceful,
- dis-honorable,
- de graded,
- scurviest,
- more peasant,
- de-graded,
- de generate,
- dis honorable,
- scurvier,
- de-generate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- nailed down,
- undisguised,
- Cinched,
- open and shut,
- self-explanatory,
- clear cut,
- sewn up,
- clear as a bell,
- iced,
- in the bag.
- cheap,
- pretty good,
- stock,
- usual,
- overused,
- looked for,
- mean,
- trite,
- commonplace,
- banausic,
- whitebread,
- fairish,
- prototypical,
- up to standard,
- domiciliary,
- matter of fact,
- dull,
- lowly,
- in the groove,
- regular,
- in character,
- scurvy,
- inconspicuous,
- stereotyped,
- pedestrian,
- familiar tune,
- middle-class,
- medium,
- Non-professional,
- accustomed,
- paradigmatic,
- seasonal,
- fairly good,
- vernacular,
- not bad,
- dull as dishwater,
- characterless,
- stereotypical,
- plain,
- plebeian,
- conventional,
- not beautiful,
- stereotypic,
- same old,
- Mildewed,
- low pressure,
- in demand,
- uninspired,
- customary,
- informal,
- mediocre,
- unaesthetic,
- unimaginative,
- cornfed,
- throwaway,
- run of the mill,
- passable,
- ho-hum,
- vulgar,
- hard on the eyes,
- average,
- Ingenerate,
- low quality,
- by numbers,
- wornout,
- in use,
- handcrafted,
- grinder,
- non-clerical,
- hohum,
- lusterless,
- low-pressure,
- uneventful,
- plain-featured,
- in established usage,
- ho hum,
- unvaried,
- nondescript,
- better than nothing,
- tolerable,
- so-so,
- moderate,
- laid back,
- in rut,
- boiler plate,
- in a rut,
- cliched,
- dime-a-dozen,
- humdrum,
- fair,
- in keeping,
- unfussy,
- Unacquired,
- Familiar,
- natural,
- all-embracing,
- fair enough,
- prototypic,
- platitudinal,
- without ceremony,
- white bread,
- banal,
- not too bad,
- respectable,
- in style,
- prototypal,
- Proser,
- popular,
- uncomely,
- used up,
- humble,
- literal,
- used-up,
- platitudinous,
- tralatitious,
- unsacred,
- cut-and-dried,
- nonspecialist,
- button down,
- used to,
- homely,
- cornball,
- nonclerical,
- normal,
- noplace,
- readymade,
- typical,
- free-and-easy,
- white-bread,
- IMPROV,
- typic,
- open-and-shut,
- chainer,
- workaday,
- non-specialist,
- garden variety,
- natal,
- working-class,
- daily,
- poor,
- unlovely,
- ignoble,
- toneless,
- warmed-over,
- inferior,
- homespun.
- 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.
- most working-class,
- most working class,
- un cultivated,
- most workingclass,
- more workingclass,
- workingclass,
- un-cultivated,
- more working-class,
- more working class.
- 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.
- steady,
- rhythmic,
- epochal,
- orthodox,
- canonical,
- cyclical,
- universal,
- constant,
- metronomic,
- monotonous,
- continual,
- periodic,
- Predominating,
- chronic.
- stark,
- casual,
- honest,
- straightforward,
- unadorned,
- candid,
- intelligible,
- uncluttered,
- unpoetical,
- frank,
- clear,
- bald,
- outspoken,
- blunt,
- Plain-spoken,
- direct.
- be-arable,
- sustainable,
- be arable,
- more unexceptionable,
- unexceptionable,
- most unexceptionable,
- more sustainable,
- most sustainable,
- un-impeachable,
- un-exceptionable,
- un exceptionable,
- un impeachable.
n.
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- surprise.
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- good.
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- rule.
v.
• ornamented (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- popularly,
- pro forma,
- The,
- middle,
- populist,
- garden,
- vanilla,
- unadventurous,
- mainstream,
- anonymous,
- norm,
- undistinguished,
- human.
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- basic.
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- indifferent,
- private.
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- straight.
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- right.
How to use "Ordinary" in context?
lives
When we look around, we can see extraordinary lives being led by people who occupy positions of power or influence. But what about the everyday people who make up the vast majority of the population? What do they do with their lives?
It can be difficult to judge what someone's "ordinary" life is, because there are so many different ways to live. But one way to think about it is that an "ordinary" life is something that everyone experiences at some point in their lives.
Some people might consider an "ordinary" life to be one where they go to work, take care of their families, and spend time with friends.
Paraphrases for Ordinary:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
normal.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
extraordinary.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
conventional, customary, daily, day-to-day, decent, easy, exceptional, generic, lambda, mere, proper, shared, traditional, trivial, typical, uncomplicated, unusual, vulgar, widespread, citizens, DER, non-political, non-proprietary, general-.
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Proper noun, singular
gets.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
notes.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
banal, commonplace, habitual, simple, straightforward.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Ordinary:
n.
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artifact
heraldic bearing, bearing, armorial bearing, charge.
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state
condition.
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artifact
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