1 [usuallybeforenoun] not unusual or different in any way:
an ordinary sort of day * in the ordinary course of events * ordinary people like you and me * This was no ordinary meeting. -< NORMAL
2 (disapproving) having no unusual or interesting features:
The meal was very ordinary.
compareEXTRAORDINARY
IDIOMS
in the ordinary way (BrE) used to say what normally happens in a particular situation:
In the ordinary way, she's not a nervous person.
out of the ordinary unusual or different:
I'm looking for something a little more out of the ordinary. * His behaviour was nothing out of the ordinary (= not unusual).
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ordinary is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ordinary a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ordinary is tagged as adjective.
Does ordinary appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ordinary appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
