What is another word for ordinary?
600 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈɔːdɪnəɹi], [ ˈɔːdɪnəɹi], [ ˈɔː_d_ɪ_n_ə_ɹ_i]Table of Contents
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)
- 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)
- table d'hote (noun)
- ornamented (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.
- 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 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.
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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
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.
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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
simple, straightforward, commonplace, habitual, banal.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Ordinary:
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adj.
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all
extraordinary.
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average; not distinctive
sophisticated, smart, exceptional, intricate, complex, embellished, strange, decorated, unclear, intelligent, difficult, ornate, superior, complicated.
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common, regular
remarkable, specific, unusual, original, special, different, unknown, uncommon, irregular, abnormal, particular, unconventional, distinctive.
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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.
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all
Hypernym for Ordinary:
n.
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artifact
bend, bend sinister, fess, bar sinister, Bend Dexter, fesse.
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artifact
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