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ordinary
adjective as in common, regular
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accustomed, customary, established, frequent, grassroots, habitual, popular, prevailing, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, settled, usual, wonted
adjective as in average; not distinctive
Strongest matches
common, conventional, dull, generic, humble, mediocre, normal, plain, simple, unremarkable, workaday
Strong matches
commonplace, fair, familiar, garden, homespun, household, inferior, mean, pedestrian, plastic, routine, vanilla
Weak matches
characterless, garden variety, habitual, indifferent, modest, no great shakes, prosaic, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, usual, white-bread
Example Sentences
That a practice has survived long enough to become ordinary is evidence that those who came before us found it useful.
The astronomers consider this specific supernova to be quite an ordinary one, so they believe that it is representative of most massive stars’ explosive death.
“They create a record of musicking at its most routine and ordinary and at its most poignant, beautiful, and transcendent.”
The brief life that Mr. Le Tellier carefully reconstructs illuminates an era when so many ordinary people were called on to be extraordinary.
But unlike for ordinary businesses, the losses are no biggie for the Fed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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