ordinary

noun · adjectiveB1

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noun
Plural noun:
ordinariesordinarie
  1. 1.

    A person with authority; authority, ordinance.

  2. 2.

    Something ordinary or regular.

  3. 3.

    A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more ordinarymost ordinary
Superlative
ordinarie
  1. 1.

    (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.

  2. 2.

    Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.

    On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.

    Đồng nghĩa: commonplace, plain, usual, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, par for the course, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday

  3. 3.

    Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.

    I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.

    He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder.

    a. 1859, Thomas Macaulay, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 7, page 325, An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.

    Đồng nghĩa: lackluster, pedestrian, unexceptional, average, comme ci comme ça, crappy, decent, indifferent, lackluster, meh, mediocre, mid, middling, no great shakes, nothing to write home about, not worth writing home about, okayish, ordinary, pedestrian, unexceptional, uninspiring, shitty, so-so, tolerable, whatever

  4. 4.

    (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal)Bad or undesirable.

    1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats, The Age, republished 2003, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 480, It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed.

    1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, page 80, For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I′d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn′t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities.

    Đồng nghĩa: awful, horrible, terrible, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack

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Đồng nghĩa

commonplaceplainusualaveragemedialbasicbog-standardcommoncommon-and-gardencommon-or-gardencongruentconsistentconventionalcustomaryeverydayexpectedgarden varietyimprominentmundanenatural

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infraordinaryintra-ordinaryintraordinarynonordinaryordinarityordinaryshipsubordinarysuperordinarysupraordinaryunordinaryordinarilyordinarinessornery,onryin ordinaryordinary course of businessordinary resolutionordinary shareperson having ordinary skill in the artperson of ordinary skill in the artout of the ordinary

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ine-pro From ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (regular, orderly), from ōrdō (order).

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