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ordinary Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual:
- an ordinary neighbourhood
- Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous.
- Her last concert appearance in Britain was no ordinary (= a very special) performance.
- If we hadn't seen the TV programme, we would have carried on giving money to the charity in the ordinary way.
- For the police, the incident was nothing out of the ordinary/did not seem out of the ordinary.
1 not different, special, or unexpected in any way; usual:
- His music was of the sort that ordinary Americans could relate to.
- Computers are now widely available in ordinary school settings.

Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
Movie theaters are harder to repurpose than ordinary stores in a shopping mall.
She accused the government of trampling on the needs and rights of the ordinary citizen.
At times, his performance verged on brilliance, but at others it was only ordinary.
My job's been downgraded to that of ordinary editor.
Thus, the many inns and ordinaries, taverns and alehouses that sat along highways and littered towns and villages nationwide were crucial in collecting and distributing the flow of news.
His aim is to motivate teachers to turn an ordinary lesson into an interesting one.
The urgency of passing time is expressed in a vocabulary which is both small and 'ordinary'.